Acidity is a dystopian cyber novelette written by eccentric Pakistani journalist and writer, Nadeem F. Paracha. Written exclusively for the website www.chowk.com in 2003, it has gone on to become a controversial cult favorite among many young Pakistanis and Indians.
Written by using various experimental writing techniques, such as William S. Burroughs' cut-up method and surrealist automatism, Acidity is basically notes kept by Paracha on post-Col...
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Acidity is a dystopian cyber novelette written by eccentric Pakistani journalist and writer, Nadeem F. Paracha. Written exclusively for the website www.chowk.com in 2003, it has gone on to become a controversial cult favorite among many young Pakistanis and Indians.
Written by using various experimental writing techniques, such as William S. Burroughs' cut-up method and surrealist automatism, Acidity is basically notes kept by Paracha on post-Cold War politics, society and economics (in India and Pakistan), during his five years as a drug addict and alcoholic.
While recovering from his addictions, Paracha spent time rearranging these notes using the cut-up method and surrealist automatism.
He then turned it all into a work of fiction in which a heroin addict narrates his story set in future Pakistan and India that have turned into capitalist and theistic dystopias.
He is a traveler who is always moving up and down both the countries looking for drugs and in the process having...
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