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Neel Mukherjee’s second novel ‘The Lives of Others’ - shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize – follows the fortunes of a middle-class family living in 1960s Calcutta, as India is rocked by revolutionary activity. Domestic upheaval mirrors social unrest in Mukherjee’s highly ambitious book. Newsnight’s Stephen Smith speaks to the author.