Durbar is a characteristically incisive account of disillusionment and disenchantment; people of my generation come across all the old familiar names from the Rogues Gallery of the 80s and 90s...the Demolisher, the Sinister Son, the Oily Aide, the Swami to beat `em all.
But. And this is a big but. Tavleen Singh said the book was about more than Rajiv and Sonia. Well, wherever the story goes, in the end it all comes back and down to Rajiv and Sonia.