Apurva Shah

When his son is attacked and branded with a rival's symbol on a Mumbai street, retired industrialist Vignesh Narayanan is dragged back into a corporate war forty years in the making. Spanning decades and two generations, Empire of Haste follows the Narayanan family from a small pharmacy in Pondicherry to the boardrooms of a telecommunications empire, tracing the cost of ambition on the people who carry it and the people who get left behind.

At its core, this is a family saga about power, legacy, and the question every dynasty eventually faces: whether the empire you built is worth what it took from the people you love. Set against the backdrop of modern India's economic transformation, the novel moves between past and present as father, daughter, and son each reckon with what the Narayanan name demands of them.