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This Garden of Weeds
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Description
Salil Gupta and his daughter Nupur belong to a Delhi business family that has no acquaintance with art. He wants to collect art, she wants to be a curator. But the art world is a walled garden that does not admit outsiders easily. Father and daughter shake up the auction business and make up a reality show set around the lives of chosen artists. It carries a million-dollar prize. Who can resist the lure of big money for wilful behaviour on camera?
The Mumbai art scene takes centre stage. In contention for the prize are a bohemian artist whose drug-filled existence fuels her art, an artist duo out to engineer a social upheaval, a performance artist who is a career rebel, and the daughter of a framer fighting conservative forces. As the contest heats up with participants going all out to win the million dollars, matters hurtle to a fatal denouement.
A tart-sweet delight of a novel, This Garden of Weeds is a witty and expert defenestration of the incestuous art world.
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Product details
| Published | 07 Oct 2025 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9789361318757 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury India |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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'A lively and observant novel [that] captures the rhythms and contradictions of a scene rarely explored in Indian fiction'
India Today
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'As an insider for long, Kumar has narrated the world of contemporary Indian art through an engaging tale and, importantly, explored its underbelly. There is mischievous playfulness, empathy for art, and a clever coalescence of fact and fiction. The ridiculous and the fake, the banal and the laughable, sadness and delight all go to make the book a riveting, readable tale.'
Ashok Vajpeyi, poet-critic, art lover
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'Celebrates the persistence of those who grow in spaces where they are unwelcome'
The Hindu
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This insider's view of the art world is at once a rollicking read and a serious commentary on the commercialisation of the art space.
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