Abandon 24th September 2018
‘India has found its Ferrante’ – Niven Govinden, author of All the Days and Nights “And I struggle to find my place in this dark novel. I yearn for passion and despair for that is what makes good literature...
Blogs in September 2018
The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta 29th September 2017
When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times. After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to the world which his immigrant parents had abandoned, to...
The Kolkata Conundrum 15th August 2016
The Kolkata Conundrum A novel by Kalyan Lahiri The mysterious and alluring Pramila, resident of Avantika Heights, is brutally murdered. Sudhir Das, the security guard from the Golden Red Security Agency, is caught red-handed.In steps Sudhir’s boss, young Orko...
Eden Gardens 18th July 2016
Eden Gardens, Calcutta, the 1940s. In a ramshackle house, streets away from the grand colonial mansions of the British, live Maisy, her Mam and their ayah, Pushpa. Whiskey-fuelled and poverty-stricken, Mam entertains officers in the night – a disgrace...
The House of Wives 16th July 2016
Calcutta 1841. Emanuel an ambitious Jewish merchant wants to make his fortune by trading opium with China. Over the ensuing decades Emanuel s success will be determined by two remarkable women Semah his dutiful first wife in Calcutta whose...
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