South asia studies. Translated from the tamil by pritham k. Chakravarthy and rakesh khanna. With its mad patchwork of phone sex conversations, nightmarish torture scenes, tender love poems, numerology, mythology, and com...South asia studies. Translated from the tamil by pritham k. Chakravarthy and rakesh khanna. With its mad patchwork of phone sex conversations, nightmarish torture scenes, tender love poems, numerology, mythology, and compulsive name-dropping of latin American intellectuals, Charu Nivedita's novel Zero Degree stands out as a groundbreaking work of tamil transgressi fiction.