At the heart of Amal Singh’s latest novel, Slow Burn, is a fantasy shared by perhaps all human beings — of living a bigger, better version of our lives. Only here, Singh uses tropes like the magic mirror and the doppelgänger to complicate this fantasy and ponder over questions of identity, moral ambiguity and self-recognition.   Set in contemporary Mumbai, Slow Burn is the story of struggling actor Rishi Tripathi who hasn’t been able to make it big despite chasing his dreams for six years. On a bad day, after…

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