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Hello, in January, there are plenty of reasons to want to flee reality, and so today we're offering two immersive journeys of the mind to assist. We'll be talking to Rob

Doyle about an intoxicating and intoxicated journey around the world,

as described in his irreverent psychogeographic globetrotting adventure threshold.

But first, we delve deep into life in an Indian slum or Bastie,

in the company of a nine-year-old sleuth with a debut novel from the carolab-born journalist turned author Deepa Annapara.

Gin Patrol on the Purple Line opens with the disappearance of a young boy Bahadur.

The community is thrown into chaos and sectarian tensions rise, propelled by a police force,

more interested in pointing the finger than solving the case.

As more children begin to go missing, Jay, the book's child narrator, has a theory about who

or what could be behind the disappearances. I look at her house with upside down eyes and count

five holes in our tin roof. There might be more, but I can't see them

because the black smog outside has wiped the stars off the sky. I picture a gin crouching down

on the roof, his eye turning like a key in a lock as he watches us through a hole, waiting for Ma and

Papa and Renu Didi to fall asleep so that he can draw out my soul. Jins aren't real, but if they

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