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Overview
The Wildings is a fiction novel written by Indian journalist Nilanjana Roy. It was first published in 2012 and has won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award 2013.

Plot
It is an imaginary insight to the lives of cats living in Nizamuddin, a neighborhood in Delhi. It focuses on their daily lives, adventures and struggles and a war between street cats and evil feral cats.

Characters

 * Mara- The main character in the story. She is a kitten who has extraordinary powers of ‘sending’, a sort of cat telepathy.  She is the most powerful sender in Delhi. Unlike the other cats, she lives as a pet cat, making her quite unpopular with the other cats. Her sending power is used at the end of the book.
 * Southpaw- A curious tomcat kitten who always gets in trouble. He stumbles into Mara’s house and the two become friends. He is an orphan raised by Katar
 * Beraal- Mara’s teacher who helps in developing the kitten’s sending powers. She also acts as a mother to Mara. She won a fight with Hulo to keep Mara alive as she was an intruder.
 * Hulo- A fierce tomcat who gave the idea of killing Mara as she was an intruder. He later lost a fight with Beraal as she wanted to train Mara.
 * Katar- A tomcat who raises Southpaw.
 * Miao-A Siamese cat who taught Katar, Hulo and Beraal when they were young. She dies in the  street cat/feral war
 * Tooth-A cheel (eagle) who helps the cats in the war. He and Miao are old friends.
 * Datura-The main villain in the story. He is the leader of the feral cats. Once humans enter his broken down house to do something with it, he and the other feral cats escape and fight with the street cats to take over their territory.