The Greed Appendage

In the aftermath of the Saranpur coalfield disaster, journalist Arun Kesari uncovers a lethal conspiracy linking mine owners, regulators, and politicians. But before he can publish, his estranged brother—a corporate fixer—colludes with complicit psychiatrists to have him committed to the Ashoka Institute for Behavioral Correction. Subjected to electroconvulsive therapy and forced drugging, Arun must convince a single skeptical doctor of his sanity while the mine’s owners and their political allies move to permanently silence him. A Janet Malcolm-style anatomy of betrayal, institutional power, and the idea that greed is an evolutionary remnant we cannot amputate.