Rogues Among The Ruins (F.B)

Rogues Among the Ruins portrays the conflict of civil servants caught between ideals and the thirst for success. The novel adopts the style of great masters like Cervantes and Gogol, who, in search of truth and justice, evoke laughter through tears. The first part of the novel, Life Among the Ruins, is a gripping, fictionalised account of the Archaeological Survey of India and the painful predicaments of a dedicated but naïve scholar faced with temptations. His son, a morally neutral civil servant caught between power and ideals, chronicles a later era in the second part of Romance Among the Ruins. Through tawdry dramas and administrative acrobatics by sycophants and hypocrites, he encounters the reality of powerful men and women who believe they rule the country. He further describes his friends and colleagues with sardonic humour, sympathy, and respect, while taking the reader on a journey through Glory Road, where principles are discarded by the ambitious, where the proud encounter humiliation, where idealists are scorned, and sometimes those with stubborn strength overcome ordeals.