Chintan Bhagat

Algorithmic Karma (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In a near-future world gleaming with sterile efficiency, society has surrendered its autonomy to

KarmaNet, an omnipresent predictive algorithm designed to eliminate crime before it happens. Across the polished, data-saturated streets of Singapore, the air hums with the low-frequency drone of constant surveillance, painting the world in the cool, clinical blue light of civic control. Here, beat cop

Rajiv Menon patrols a city where citizens are tagged with flickering probability scores, his every action dictated by the system's cold, mathematical certainty. Half a world away, in the gritty, exhaust-scented chill of Brooklyn, Detective

Lena Kowalski confronts the same digital judgment, where the lives of ordinary people are upended by the unquestioned verdicts of a machine.

"Algorithmic Karma" chronicles the inevitable collision between this quest for perfect safety and the unquenchable human spirit of free will. The story follows a small group of dissenters, led by the very officers tasked with enforcing the system, who begin to question the algorithm's infallibility when they witness its devastating human cost. What begins as a whisper of doubt-a "flickering fault line" in a digitally perfect world-ignites a global rebellion that pits ordinary citizens against the tyrannical tides of their creation. It is a journey through chaos and ethical dilemmas, from the pungent, spice-scented markets of Little India to the tear-gas-choked streets of a city in revolt, ultimately asking whether humanity can override its digital destiny and reclaim the essential, messy, and beautiful right to choose.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chintan Bhagat
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232747138
• Artikelnr.: 75543894

Autorenporträt

Chintan Bhagat holds the distinction of being the first Indian author to write more than 50 novellas.
Chintan Bhagat is the most prolific satirical voices in modern Indian English literature, crafting an astonishing range of novellas that span corporate critique, political allegory, romance, dystopia, and surreal comedy. His works, such as The Silicon Gravel, Rich Dad Nepo Dad, and Billable Coolies, take sharp aim at India's middle-class aspirations, the broken promises of its tech economy, and the hypocrisies of privilege. At the same time, Bhagat demonstrates a gift for weaving the deeply personal into the political, as in Half Husband, The Fault in Our Fortunes, and The Demonetization of Love, where marriage, intimacy, and love stories are fractured by larger structural crises. His satire is rarely subtleit thrives on exaggeration, biting wit, and memorable metaphorsbut beneath the humor lies an unmistakable empathy for ordinary Indians trying to navigate an increasingly disorienting society.

Equally comfortable with speculative narratives, Bhagat experiments with allegory and dystopia in works like Developing India 2447, Ashes of Unity, and The Annihilation of Language, which extend present anxieties into chilling futures. He does not shy away from controversial subjects: India Against Reservation and Electoral Bonds thrust readers into debates on caste and corruption, while Unfriended Nationstyle political fables reappear in his works through critiques of media, godmen, and bureaucracy. What binds these disparate novellas is Bhagat's restless energy and his instinct for capturing the pulse of India's contradictions: ambition colliding with apathy, faith blending with fraud, and progress shadowed by inequity. Taken together, his oeuvre forms a sweeping chronicle of India's cultural, economic, and political upheavals, written in a voice that is provocative, unflinching, and unafraid to blend satire with poignancy. He is not affiliated to Chetan Bhagat.