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The latest work by the author of 'The Forest of Enchantments' and 'The Last Queen' is set on the cusp of India's independence. The novel begins in the idyllic setting of Ranipur, a village in Bengal 'safe from the rising turbulence in the country'. Nabakumar Ganguly is a doctor who runs a clinic in Calcutta with Dr. Abdullah but the

Janice Pariat's work is a plethora of heartwarming episodes with endearing characters starting with the narrator Shai, her father, Kima and, of course, the indomitable Oiñ. Jaded and with 'no inner compass', Shai travels from the capital fleeing from the air and as revealed through her inner dialogue "because something---I don't

Vasudhendra has assayed a novel that is monumental in scale and it takes immense daring to conceive of such a undertaking. The novel oscillates between the backdrop of the Tejo in Portugal during the Renaissance and the banks of the Tungabhadra in the Vijaynagara Empire.Gabriel and Bella are young lovers caught in the web of an entrenched antisemitic social

A fictional narrative which oscillates between historical accounts, social commentary and a fictional storyline might seem daunting and, perhaps, tedious to some writers. Debarati Mukhopadhyay traverses these seemingly incongruent aspects with effortless ease. The setting changes within a few pages from Nobokishore Dutta's compound in Mechhuabajar in Calcutta to Mowshaat

Translations can often seem tedious due to entrenched cultural and linguistic barriers. Amar Mitra's novel is a confluence of resplendent folklore and gruesome socio-political realities. From the first page itself, he has effortlessly imbued the magical realism narrative framework with the ingenuity of a vibrant imagination. The novel proceeds in the form of an oddly invigorating cyclical

Popular Science has a new storyteller and one who can weave a mesmerizing labyrinth of the banal and even the often neglected aspects of our existence. The leitmotif of his book is an organism's Umwelt --- its 'sensory bubble' or 'perceptual world' --- is both poetic and a recursively hypnotic narrative technique. If Carl Sagan was a master of

While exploring the desires of different strata of Indian women in her book, Shrayana Bhattacharya places at the centre of it a sociological investigation on the rampant social and economic disparity between men and women. Desperately Seeking Shahrukh is an intelligent blend of an empathetic observation of the lives of

When an adept marketeer writes books, the result is a book such as 'The Big Bang of Numbers'. Everything from the title itself to the introduction cheekily subtitled "The Poper Made Me Write This Book" promises to be a fascinating read even for a subject that is revered by the millions but billions find intimidating, to put it mildly. For a late bloomer