neha from the nexus of reality tv shows in mumbai another chapter takes us to the village of chandangarh where she bravely fights the oppressive khap panchayat agreed that any work of fiction deserves some drama but the accidental apprentice goes a little overboard but vikas is quick to defend my books are always inspired by what is happening in my country and i try to present a snapshot as it were of contemporary india but woven into the fabric of my narrative having said this i must also mention that i do not aspire for a hundred per cent realism in my books i am not averse to introducing new elements which are necessary to move my plot along the book as opposed to qa that focused on the slums of mumbai chooses delhi as the cynosure i consider delhi to be my city i have spent a good chunk of my adult life in the capital working at the ministry of external affairs even as a child i spent two years studying at st columbas so i can claim that i know delhi the hanuman mandir is my wifes favourite temple and ive been there innumerable times still there were areas that i had not actually been to such as rohini so when i returned to india last winter for my home leave from japan i spent two days actually going to the places whose geography features in the book i even took a metro ride all the way from cp to rohini explains vikas despite a racy narrative the story progresses slowly but the sweeping finish is worth reading the book for until the very last page also because the end is more than ready to be adapted into a blockbuster without any edits vikas however thinks its too early to talk about the film version of the accidental apprentice all i can say is that i am not one of those writers who want 100 of their book in the film i recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table provided the soul of the book is preserved he signs off