“Two strangers saw the car. Both of them reported it.”Eleven Feet · Delhi, 1978
A novel of the Ranga Billa case, the crime that taught Delhi to be afraid. Forty chapters, built on the record: the dates, the places, the evidence and the courts are as they were.
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The cover for the next novel is here. The Blueprint: Hawara, The Plan is Book 1 of a new series, and it is about how one plan was made.
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The Blueprint, then The Hunt, then The Jailbreak. One subject, told from the record: the trial judgment, the High Court judgment, and the words of the man himself.
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“Two strangers saw the car. Both of them reported it.”Novel · 2026
Delhi, 26 August 1978. A brother and sister are taken off the road into a stolen yellow Fiat. Everybody knows how this ends. This is the story of the three years and five months in between, told by one of the two men, from a cell eleven feet from the other.
DiscoverMathematics, human psychology, culture and storytelling. Stories that ask you to see the connections you might otherwise miss.
Satbir Singh Malhi grew up in the village of Tharu in Tarn Taran district, Punjab, and moved to the United States in 2011. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Kansas and works in mathematics, statistics and data science. In his psychological thrillers, ideas from graph theory, causal inference and probability become the framework of the plot. He began writing for his daughter, Inara, and lives in California with his family.
The next novel opens at an arrest and tells, from there, how a plan was made. It is built from the record: a 1,022-page trial judgment, the High Court judgment of 2010, and the man's own words.