Grabber - by Nirmal Pulickal & Jehan Zachary (Paperback)

About the Book

Buried in the sands of time is an urban legend-there was once another grand tomb as beautiful and as magnificent as its white twin, the Black Taj Mahal. But it hid a dark secret: the sixty-four chopped hands that built the White Taj.

Book Synopsis

Centuries later, during the British era, twelve-year-old Nuru befriends a queen from the erstwhile Mughal courts. Mumtaz appears and disappears as she pleases but warns of a prophecy. The revival of the pisacha-a ghoulish union of the sixty-four severed hands that built the White Taj Mahal.

About the Author

Nirmal Pulickal is a well-known creative leader based in Delhi. He co-founded the design firm February, which was acquired by M&C Saatchi global network in 2016. Since then, he has been the Head of Creative for both Amazon and Facebook in India. Grabber started as a drawing of a monster by his ten-year-old son, Jehan Zachary, an artistic middle schooler fascinated by gothic tales and mythology. They created the character together and decided that Grabber deserved an origin story. With langoors and lanterns, scoundrels and djinns, the story is a white-knuckle ride through Mughal and British-ruled India.