THE DELHI DIRECTIVE : Once You’re Marked, There’s No Escape
THE DELHI DIRECTIVE : Once You’re Marked, There’s No Escape
Anirudhya Mitra
- Paperback : 376 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9353459354
- ISBN-13 : 978-9353459352
Anirudhya Mitra is a bestselling author, acclaimed screenwriter and award-winning former journalist. His debut book, Ninety Days: The True Story of the Hunt for Rajiv Gandhi’s Assassins (2023), became a national bestseller and was adapted into the widely acclaimed SonyLIV series, The Hunt, directed by Nagesh Kukunoor. He has also written The Enforcer: An IPS Officer’s War on Crime in India’s Badlands (2025).
A former investigative journalist with India Today and The Times of India, Mitra is credited with breaking some of India’s most high-profile stories – from the Rajiv Gandhi assassination and Bofors scandal to the South Asian drug wars and the shadowy world of godmen and political fixers.
Over the years, Mitra has transitioned from journalism to storytelling for the screen, having written original series for leading OTT platforms. He has also produced and written internationally recognized films in Southeast Asia, including Under the Protection of Ka’bah, Indonesia’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards in 2012, and Habibie & Ainun, Indonesia’s blockbuster biopic on President B.J. Habibie.
Anirudhya Mitra is a bestselling author, acclaimed screenwriter and award-winning former journalist. His debut book, Ninety Days: The True Story of the Hunt for Rajiv Gandhi’s Assassins (2023), became a national bestseller and was adapted into the widely acclaimed SonyLIV series, The Hunt, directed by Nagesh Kukunoor. He has also written The Enforcer: An IPS Officer’s War on Crime in India’s Badlands (2025).
A former investigative journalist with India Today and The Times of India, Mitra is credited with breaking some of India’s most high-profile stories – from the Rajiv Gandhi assassination and Bofors scandal to the South Asian drug wars and the shadowy world of godmen and political fixers.
Over the years, Mitra has transitioned from journalism to storytelling for the screen, having written original series for leading OTT platforms. He has also produced and written internationally recognized films in Southeast Asia, including Under the Protection of Ka’bah, Indonesia’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards in 2012, and Habibie & Ainun, Indonesia’s blockbuster biopic on President B.J. Habibie.
Author Bios:
THE KILL LIST IS REAL . . . AND INDIA HAS BEGUN TO CROSS OFF NAMES.
They called it Delhi Directive, a whispered order passed in an insulated room in Sansad, born from a ruthless mandate: India will no longer wait for justice.
When Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar is gunned down in Canada, Western capitals erupt in outrage. Beneath the diplomatic denials and public condemnations lies a darker truth. For years, a covert arm of India’s external intelligence agency, the R&AW, has been quietly hunting its enemies abroad, from terror financiers in London, separatist leaders in Vancouver to ISI assets in Karachi.
At the heart of these shadow wars is a R&AW operative who does not officially exist. Moving through embassies and safehouses, he navigates the murky intersection of espionage, geopolitics and personal morality, until one mission unravels the delicate balance between patriotism and power.
Taut, explosive and frighteningly plausible, The Delhi Directive exposes the hidden war India fights beyond its borders through the unnamed agents who live and die in its name.
THE KILL LIST IS REAL . . . AND INDIA HAS BEGUN TO CROSS OFF NAMES.
They called it Delhi Directive, a whispered order passed in an insulated room in Sansad, born from a ruthless mandate: India will no longer wait for justice.
When Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar is gunned down in Canada, Western capitals erupt in outrage. Beneath the diplomatic denials and public condemnations lies a darker truth. For years, a covert arm of India’s external intelligence agency, the R&AW, has been quietly hunting its enemies abroad, from terror financiers in London, separatist leaders in Vancouver to ISI assets in Karachi.
At the heart of these shadow wars is a R&AW operative who does not officially exist. Moving through embassies and safehouses, he navigates the murky intersection of espionage, geopolitics and personal morality, until one mission unravels the delicate balance between patriotism and power.
Taut, explosive and frighteningly plausible, The Delhi Directive exposes the hidden war India fights beyond its borders through the unnamed agents who live and die in its name.
