Memory Games: Feel Better Now
When a man wakes on the Banaras ghats with no name, no past and only Bollywood item songs echoing in his head, India turns him into a guru before he even remembers who he is.
They call him Anhad - "unstruck sound." Viral clips of his strange, razor-sharp interpretations of film songs ricochet from tea stalls to boardrooms. A small-time don smells opportunity. A burnt-out journalist smells a story. A choreographer who is tired of being the world's wallpaper sees, maybe, a way to reclaim her body and her art.
From Allahabad lanes and Kashi's riverfront to Bengaluru tech parks, Mumbai studios and the Konkan coast, Memory Games follows the rise and unraveling of a spiritual start-up built on music, trauma and the oldest human desire of all: to feel better now.
As Anhad's movement explodes, so do the fault lines around him - caste and gender, faith and fandom, media and manipulation. Is he a fraud, a saint, or just a man whose missing memories make him the perfect screen for everyone else's projections?
Blending literary thriller, satire, magical realism and Buddhist psychology, Memory Games is a darkly funny, deeply compassionate novel about:
how stories colonise our memories,
how images turn people into brands,
how anger, lust and grief get remixed as "wellness," and
what remains when the soundtrack finally stops.
If you've ever danced alone to a song you were told to be ashamed of, or wondered who is really writing the script of your life, this novel invites you to step into the noise - and listen for what's underneath.
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