He did not set out to challenge power. He only asked a question.

What followed was exile without borders. A life lived in waiting rooms, convoys, borrowed houses, and half-made decisions. Love fractures under pressure. Convictions blur. The line between victim and participant disappears.

Set against the background of modern Indian politics, THE EXILE traces the slow moral drift of a man who believed he stood on higher ground, only to discover that no one does. Power arrives not as ideology, but as logistics, favors, silences, and deals made in closed rooms.

As elections loom and alliances shift, he must decide whether to step away with what remains of his life—or step forward and own the damage already done.

This is not a story about winning. It is about what survives after choosing to stay.