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|title=The Village

|sort=Village

|publisher=Viking

|date=June 2012

|website=http://www.nikitalalwani.com

|summary=A riveting and powerful punch of a novel daring to ask big questions as western prying-eye television invades an Indian village/penal colony. Be warned: if you read this book, you'll never be able to watch another documentary without wondering.

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A BBC film crew is sent to India to make a documentary about an Indian prison with a difference. There are no walls, the prisoners hold down jobs and their families live with them as a condition of acceptance. In fact, to all intents and purposes, it seems like an ordinary village which is all the more unusual when you consider that they all share the same crime category; all the prisoners have been convicted of murder. The programme makers (20-something British-born, Indian director Ray, ruthless producer Serena and ex-convict-turned-presenter, Nathan) are expecting an eventful shoot and, in return, the inhabitants are expecting a film unit exhibiting the standards for which the BBC has become world famous. Both parties will be sorely disappointed.