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- Mumbai is the City of (Not) Motion in Jugal Mody’s “Turds of Gold”
Bombay is suffering from a severe gastric epidemic of inexplicable origins. A young freelance caregiver, Nikunj, discovers that he has the superpower to make anyone poop, and with that poop, cure the person of any stomach ailments. As Nikunj begins to help people, and make money using his superpower, things start looking up for him. Till he meets Kalpeshbhai, a billionaire paraplegic whose family owns Param Churna, India’s best selling Ayurvedic cure for constipation. Kalpeshbhai, who hasn’t pooped in over two decades, hires Nikunj to heal him.
Will Nikunj’s superpower be able to make Kalpeshbhai poop? Will they cure Bombay of the gastric epidemic?
Jugal Mody’s Turds of Gold is an irreverent, audacious, and hilarious story of greed, blind belief and small miracles. Read an excerpt.
Over the next few days, the time Nikunj spent with Kalpeshbhai kept increasing. He would get there in time for breakfast and then hang out with Kalpeshbhai till lunch. On one of those days, Kalpeshbhai told him about how his body sometimes became a biogas plant. That’s why his diet was so controlled. Not that he could eat much. It was like his body consumed every last molecule of nutrients from all the food that had accumulated, and formed a high-gravity black hole in his intestine. A black hole that misbehaved as soon as you sent more food its way. Kalpeshbhai giggled as he told Nikunj that half a boiled egg would give him a flammable burp. Nikunj laughed, ‘Just because you’ve got this unsolved puzzle of an illness doesn’t mean everything you say is true.’
The disappointment of failing to make Kalpeshbhai poop at the end of every session weighed on Nikunj’s soul. He carried that weight to his evening patients in whatever suburb was deeply affected by the gastric storm. But this day was different. Nikunj was happy that at least he was leaving the Sheth household with Kalpeshbhai and Kashmira bhabhi in a good mood.
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About the Book - Turds Of Gold
Bombay is suffering from a severe gastric epidemic of inexplicable origins. A young freelance caregiver, Nikunj, discovers that he has the superpower to make anyone poop, and with that poop, cure the person of any stomach ailments. As Nikunj begins…
About the Author - Jugal Mody
Jugal Mody has worked with storytelling, design and digitalmedia across sectors from journalism to gaming. His firstnovel, Toke (HarperCollins India, 2012), was about stonerssaving the world from zombies. He has also written Indianactor and star Alia Bhatt’s official mobile game,…
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