[5] Djinn Patrol depicts a young child who attempts to investigate a mystery involving the disappearance of children from an impoverished slum.

[6][7] It tells of children living in a slum in a fictional Indian city who set out to find a classmate who has disappeared.

Anappara worked as a journalist in India, reporting on social issues in the state of Gujarat, and in Delhi and Mumbai.

[11] Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line was originally written as part of her dissertation for her Master of Arts degree.

The magazine's critical summary reads: "Anappara achieves the (seemingly) impossible here: she has written a sweet, funny novel narrated from a child's perspective, but she has also used that point of view to reveal the desperate situation of those who live in India's slums".