Francois Gautier insists Mark Tully is the author of Hindutva, Sex &Adventure
IT’S A book with no literary merit whatsoever, but it has become the biggest whodunit of the year. Hindutva, Sex and Adventure , the bombshell Roli Books dropped on the Foreign Correspondents Club in February, is slowly detonating and shows no signs of being defused just yet.
Not only has the book caused a storm in many a wine glass at the Club by its less- thanveiled attempt to sully the reputation of the much- venerated Mark Tully, but it has also snowballed into a slang- fest over the identity of the author, who has taken recourse to writing under the frustratingly cryptic pseudonym, John MacLithon.
The author hides behind a smokescreen to weave together a quickie novelette that at best deserves the Bad Sex Award, for the tantric sex romps of its Hindutva- loving protagonist, Andrew Luyt, a foreign correspondent posted in India whose character is a gross misrepresentation of Tully’s long stay in India.
MacLithon too has an intriguing and suspiciously familiar author- bio: he describes himself as a foreign correspondent who holds the profound belief that India should have pride in its Hindu base. He claims to have interviewed six Indian prime ministers and dodged bullets on the India- Pakistan border. And, like Tully, he lives in Delhi with his partner.
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