The Tonic

Mumbai, 2017: Reymerg D'Souza, a media tycoon and powerful militant Atheist, harbours an ominous plan to cleanse the country from religion.
Avantika Das, an investigative journalist, partners with a suspended cop to embark on a perilous journey to expose Reymerg's darker agendas.
Back in 1992, two young misfits are drawn together by the ravages of an approaching Hindu-Muslim riot.
Masher, a diffident teenager with a speech disorder is forced into participating in an annual elocution contest held in his school.
During this period, he befriends Raem, a twenty-one-year old recluse with a foreign descent, who gifts him a packet of mysterious chocolate pills.
The pills magically begin to embolden their lives. They begin to win moments and people. A Tonic that turns them from being misfits to stupefiers.
But soon the riots begin to take its violent form. As it takes away everything from one but not so much from the other.
The two tales separated by decades, strangely begin to converge towards the end, to forge a deadly truth that binds the lives of these people in the most unexpected manner and may be the key to stopping the atheist from executing his sinister plans.

"Mayur Sudhakar Sarfare, aged 30, is an Indian author. He is a Professor of Mass Media with a keen interest in creative writing. His range of subjects include Understanding Cinema, Content Writing and Media laws. He teaches at Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Arts, Science and Commerce in Mumbai. He began his career in Public Relations at India's largest independent PR machinery - Adfactors PR, but a love for media subjects and cinema drove him towards academics. However, the childhood passion for writing continued blossoming, finally fuelling the idea for his first novel.
He is an ardent consumer of metaphysics and philosophy. A man of powerful words, Mayur Sarfare is much sought after for the multitude of thoughts that spring from an ever curious mind, which he shares on Social Media platforms, urging people to sit up and think.
His growing popularity stems from the way he perceives things objectively, without being judgemental.
He also enjoys hosting events and plays moderator during panel discussions.
The Tonic, is his debut novel.
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