Dealing with present social, political, bureaucratic and religious life of India an English novel Confessions at Black Grave by Niyaz Khan was released at Hotel Palash on Saturday.
The book also highlights the discrimination against Muslim officers is one of the major themes of the book.
The story runs in Mumbai, Kanyakumari, Gwalior and Switzerland. It surrounds the story of Sameer Hasrat, the protagonist came from a slum area and his friend Kalyan Karigar. But, Sameer’s ambition to clean his dirty past paved him a solid way to ascend the ladder of success.
Only few years of service in administration Sameer becomes a rich man of the town with the help of money which he earned from corruption. His friend Kalyan Karigar too becomes a rich politician with the help of illegal money and muscle power.
Sameer Hasrat had never thought that being a Muslim he is not a full citizen of India like the others. At every step he is discriminated by the leaders he came in contact and the District Magistrates he worked with. The mystery of Sameer's life and wishes remains clouded until the last page of the book that binds the reader till the climax of the book.
Notably, Niyaz Khan is a senior officer in State Administrative Service in Madhya Pradesh. He is presently posted in Sehore as Joint Collector. He is working in the literary field for the last five years and The Ocean of Bliss was his first novel. Destiny and Drugs was his second novel, a suspense thriller. Both novels were published from Mumbai. Notably, Confessions at Black Grave is Niyaz's third novel having 326 pages and it is a suspense thriller. The novel was completed in three years and five months.