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Podcast: Asia In-Depth
Episode: Age of Vice, with Deepti Kapoor
Description: Deepti Kapoor's Age of Vice, published in 2023, is a story of power, corruption, and complicity, set in modern India. In the early 2000s, the lives of Ajay, Neda, and Sunny – the novel's three main characters – cross in New Delhi. There is idealism, optimism even; but also crime, drugs, and violence, as Sunny Wadia follows in the footsteps of his powerful father. Age of Vice, which became a New York Times bestseller and will be adapted into a tv series, is a deeply researched portrait of a changing country, with a fast-growing economy, and ever greater inequality. Deepti visit...