Spatial echoes

the long version

What if the third World War breaks out? Could it be averted? Could the super powers with nuclear weaponry control the religious fanatics bent upon taking the world to the brink of mass annihilation? Two young boys – Sanatan and Iqbal – one Hindu and the other Muslim, living in a sleepy village of pre-partition India were nurtured with ideals of patriotism and service to humanity. After the partition of India, the boys were separated as Iqbal’s family migrated to Pakistan.. As decades pass, both become renowned scientists in their respective countries. In the meantime, the third World War breaks out. Will either of them succeed in hatching their sinister design? In ‘Spatial Echoes’, Jayanti M. Dalal vividly describes India in the days before independence, fomenting questions of communal harmony, substance of world peace, the future of the world in the nuclear arm race, and the chessboard gimmickries of the super powers bent on taking the world to the brink of mass destruction. This makes Spatial Echoes quite a fascinating novel written by an Indian fiction writer. Spatial Echoes written brilliantly about all kinds of violent epochs that thwarted the aspirations of the common people, as found in the vast expanse of recorded history is a contemporary novel of passion and intrigue. It enjoys cult status as a novel that dares to ask crucial questions about the turbulent periods of history.