Description
Published in 2025
Published by ‘THA!’ Prakashan
A novel composed of three lakhs and forty-six thousand words, written over a period of ten years, ransacking fifteen libraries, one state archive, one national archive, one international archive, and collecting books from eight antiquarian booksellers, and consulting four erudite scholar writers, and recording reminiscences from five octogenarians. This book is written in an amusing, extravagant, and epical-satirical vein, featuring immense erudition, as well as limitless street-slangs, simultaneously, and is aptly comparable to the works of Francois Rabelais and James Joyce; and in this work, magic realism and fantasy occur against the background of life of the Bengalee race in the Indian socio-political system of the first decade of the 21st century. It’s not a story of love and sacrifice, rather it’s a story of atonement and retribution; it’s not a story of revenge, rather it’s a story of justice.
