Ishan Salman Panicker carries a motley lineage in his veins with a Hindu father, Christian mother, and a Muslim grandfather all the way from Bangladesh. Reverend Joseph Kunnel prophesies a dark future for Ishan. Ishan escapes from the priest and his prophecies and arrives in Delhi with his wife Jenny. Delhi turns out to be a twirling black hole which drives Ishan to write his own gospel.

This short novel is a complex work that probes the inevitable mystique and horror of life. The plot spans a whole century. Saints and sinners, Gandhi and Godse, Jesus and Mary Magdalene, and a whole range of ordinary people come together to continue the evolution of a 14-billion-year-old black hole.