About the Book: The year is 2075. India is a land of perpetual summer. A haze of heat shrouds the country, with temperatures soaring, causing mirages to dance in the distance. The landscape has changed dramatically; cities are crowded, with towering buildings reaching for the sky, casting long shadows over the streets below. In a Delhi grappling with heat and pollution-related challenges, 14-year-old Sumati meets Vikram ‘the Superhero’ Malhotra during an unlikely adventure. Aided by a quirky ‘intelligent’ agent and a hodgepodge of animal friends, she goes on a journey across the country on hyperloop trains, uncovering a sinister plot surrounding the city’s waste-to-energy (WTE) plants. Their high-speed journey through an unable-to-cope India reveals the true meaning of heroism in a world where high-tech solutions clash with age-old maladministration. Along the way: technologies lie, train stations collapse, animals watch, and a girl begins to understand the difference between resilience and refusal. The Very Last Superhero is a speculative novel about post-truth India, environmental collapse, and the fight to preserve memory when institutions forget. No one flies. But someone stays.