On Becoming Acceptable: A Political Allegory
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In a City where silence is mistaken for peace, progress arrives without protest and history is edited without debate.
The Child, a thoughtful observer, notices that pages are missing from his history books. As he listens to the stories of the Elder, he begins to uncover a past shaped by careless authority, quiet manipulation, and the careful reshaping of memory. Figures emerge—a Speaker who trusted speed, a Maker who built patiently, and a Peacemaker who restores order by softening language rather than changing truth.
As the City moves forward, it becomes clear that this is not a story about rebellion or reform. It is a story about continuity. Memory itself is absorbed, awareness becomes permission, and silence turns into qualification.
On Becoming Acceptable is a restrained, unsettling work of literary fiction that explores how power survives not by force, but by becoming familiar.
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Jigar Makwana is an Indian writer whose work explores power, memory, and the quiet mechanisms through which authority becomes ordinary. Writing in the tradition of political allegory and minimalist literary fiction, he examines how systems endure by absorbing awareness rather than resisting it. His poetry has been featured in the World’s First Book on Haiku poetry, and he serves as the editor and compiler of The Rising Channel’s Anthology. His writing avoids direct representation in favour of symbolic roles, allowing historical and ethical patterns to emerge without reliance on specific events or figures. On Becoming Acceptable is his debut long-form work of literary fiction.
