# Death of a Moneylender

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- Authors: [Kota Neelima](https://www.bookquiver.com/kota-neelima)
- Language: en_IN
- Published: 2016-05-01

## Description

Falak, a young journalist from Delhi, is assigned to a remote village in south-central India where a moneylender is found dead, hung from a lamppost in front of his house by an entire village united against injustice. Falak coldly hunts the story for a page one byline, unconcerned with corrective conscience, an attitude that cost him his relationship with Vani, a rival newspaper journalist. Within hours of reaching the village, his story is ready; a villainous moneylender killed by long-suffering villagers. But Falak has also unearths a disconcerting fact, that the moneylender was a kind-hearted, generous man whose death was being used to intimidate other moneylenders. Outstanding loans are written off to buy peace with villagers, but the politically well-connected and dangerous moneylenders plan a brutal retribution.

## Editions

### Death of a Moneylender

- Publisher: india_penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4342-662-2
- Pages: 280
- Published: 2016-05-01
- Language: en_IN