Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa: the Acclaimed Science Fiction Novella of a Future Bombay by India’s Visionary Author

He died for his beliefs. They brought him back to serve theirs.In a future Mumbai reeking of toxic air and caste memory, Inspector Neel Kant is resurrected from deadsleep—his body borrowed, his past erased—to investigate an impossible crime: the brutal murder of a cloned god.On Chowpatty Beach lies the mutilated corpse of Ganesa—flesh and blood, tusked and divine. Not a statue. Not a myth. A living, breathing clone made from ancient DNA… and someone butchered him.As Neel unravels the mystery behind the murdered deity, he is pulled into a subterranean conspiracy involving illicit god-cloning, forbidden quantum biology, and a caste-stratified society that worships progress but has forgotten compassion. Hunted by drones, shadowed by AI, and haunted by his own past, Neel must decide whether to serve the corrupt system that killed him—or burn it down.A brutal fusion of detective noir, mythpunk science fiction, and dystopian satire, Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa asks: In a world where gods can be printed, who owns divinity?