![]() ![]() Revolving around the palace Rahul grew up in Hyderabad, the events of the past gradually build up an exquisitely charming picture of a bygone era. ![]() However, he earns enough sympathy from Andrew in the course of the novel as his past gets charted out in detail. His partner Andrew is inclined towards judging Rahul badly for his silence in the beginning. The entire novel dwells on his life-long silence on his sexual orientation and identity. Rahul’s “coming out” is already anticipated in the beginning though it actually happens at the end. The story takes the readers back to 1970’s Hyderabad. Rahul decides to tell his story, the truth that Andrew doesn’t know. They love each other intensely, yet Andrew makes it very clear that he will never come back till Rahul comes into terms with himself and his family about his orientation and identity. What happens from there is a series of emotional yet hostile conversations between them over the question of Rahul’s “coming out”. One morning a scuffle breaks out between Rahul and his live-in partner Andrew in San Francisco regarding a visit by a relative so Rahul can meet a suitable girl. A bildungsroman novel, My Magical Palace is a fast paced narrative about love and longing, loss and betrayal. ![]() The magical part about My Magical Palace is Kunal’s ease for storytelling and his ability to create a bygone era- the 1970’s Hyderabad in all its beauty and offensiveness. ![]()
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