Blasphear
Blasphear by Sohail Rauf, published by Penguin Random House India Pvt. Limited in 2024, is a fiction work that delves into the complexities of faith and justice. The story follows Sub-inspector Waqas Mahmood, who is initially reluctant to investigate the suicide of a seventeen-year-old boy in the dusty town of Shantinagar, Punjab, Pakistan. Disenchanted with his role in the police force and wary of the religious tensions surrounding the case, Waqas contemplates closing the investigation. However, as he uncovers deeper connections to a past incident involving a lynching, his perspective begins to shift.
Readers will find a narrative that explores themes of betrayal, conspiracy, and the impact of religious fanaticism on personal relationships. As Waqas navigates the challenges posed by witnesses and the haunting memories of his childhood, he confronts the moral dilemmas of upholding justice in a society fraught with division. This edition, comprising 320 pages and presented in English, invites readers to engage with the suspenseful unfolding of events that challenge Waqas’s beliefs and resolve.
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When Sub-inspector Waqas Mahmood is assigned the case of a suicide of a seventeen-year-old boy, he is tempted to do the bare minimum and close it. Waqas has been disenchanted with the police force and wants to quit anyway. And the ominous presence of a religious outfit around the boy’s house is another reason to stay away. It’s also just too hot in Shantinagar, a dusty town in Punjab in Pakistan.
But Waqas realizes there’s more to the case when the boy’s friend reaches out claiming that it was not a suicide. In fact, the case might be linked to another terrifying case in Shantinagar when a Hindu art teacher was lynched on the accusation of blasphemy against Islam.
Waqas is intrigued; a horror story from his childhood returns to haunt him. From witnesses’ statements, he pieces together accounts of friendships that transcended religions before they were ruined by betrayal, conspiracy and religious fanaticism. Will Waqas succumb to the terror of religious bigots, or will he uphold justice in a society that badly needs it?
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