Narayanpore needs a slut walk

A comic stage, underlying serious themes, is set up in a fictional Bengal constituency: Shovon Chowdhury reviews Anirudh Bhattacharyya’s The Candidate in The Outlook

Soon there will be a vacuum in your life. This will be around May 21, once the TV shows stop doing post-election analysis. The Election Express will be hired out to marriage parties. The Election Commission will turn back into a pumpkin. The statisticians will get busy with IPL. Priyanka Gandhi will vanish from our lives. At this point, you will find an empty space within you where the election used to be. Open this book then. It could help you fill it.