It is a troubling narrative, but also a call to action and a cry for change. Through hard-nosed investigations and the meticulous gathering of documentary evidence, Joseph clinically examines and irrefutably documents the non-reportable. Within these covers is unimpeachable evidence against some of the country's biggest business houses and political figures, and the reopening of major scandals that have shaped its political narratives. The story is small: a village needs a road and a hospital, a graveyard needs a wall, people need toilets.Ī Feast of Vultures is an unprecedented, multiple-level inquiry into modern India, and the picture it reveals is both explosive and frightening. The story is big: that of treacherous business rivalries, of how some industrial houses practically own the country, of the shadowy men who run the nation's politics.

Josy Joseph draws upon two decades as an investigative journalist to expose a problem so pervasive that we do not have the words to speak of it.

This book is a sneak preview of those searches, the middlemen who do those jobs, and the many opportunities that the fast-growing economy offers.' If they search in the right places and offer the appropriate price, there is always a facilitator who can get the job done. 'Every day, millions of people - the rich, the poor and the many foreign visitors - are hunting for ways to get their business done in modern India.

A Feast of Vultures by Josy Joseph