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The Long Line of Hope
Stories of love, loss and longing lie buried under a thin and worn out sheet of hope in Kashmir. Every human heart breathes hope, every human soul pumps hope in and out of its heart. It is hope alone which gives to Kashmir and its people a reason for existence, every new sunrise, the warmth of a fireplace, the smell of its saffron fields. With hope indeed is bound up the legendary tale of the resilience of its people. This long story chronicles four distinct, inter-related yet somewhat contradictory tales of hope and shows how hope is not always an accompaniment of love, peace, and justice but can also be a function of agony, deprivation, anguish, and inter-generational seething rage.
The Trespasser
An author who is unable to proceed with his story meets an intriguing young woman who promises to help him write. She seems to be the perfect reader, empathetic, intelligent, involved. Over the next few months the author finds himself writing a story that is not his and living a life that he does not wish to see himself in. As the reader invades into the innermost spaces of his life, the colonial past of Pondicherry mingles with the multicultural present of the coastal town to make The Trespasser a story of storytelling and takes the readers on a journey of reading and living life as a story.
Twenty Three Summers
Set against the backdrop of a conflict-ridden Kashmir Valley and spanning twenty-three years of unfinished love and longing, pain and sublimation, this is a story of refracted love between ambitious and competent Sudarshan and quiet and tender Farooq, two human souls who bleed and cry together But on two different notes. For tormented Sudarshan, love is about being unambiguous in its proclamations, aggressively possessive; for helpless Farooq, it is about stepping back, letting go, nurturing, caring, attending, renouncing. The personal currents of a turbulent relationship and the political dynamics of Kashmir cross-cut and fuse in this political love story.
Nefeli And Us
When sinister smiles appear on the faces of demigods standing at the entrance of Aegina, a small, less-known but prosperous and superbly governed city-state of ancient Greece, its sagacious governor Nefelius, young and unassuming, unanimously agreed upon to be its superhero, apprehends evil days to befall the residents. In conjunction with his close confidants he must be able to show the way to his people to counter the evil forces. He, along with his closest companion, Arcadius, seems all set to do so but a twin curse afflicts him, keeps him disabled and renders him helpless both in private life and in public duties. Will he be able to defeat the curses, restore his private life to its previous bliss while his ingenious articulation of disability and empowerment in the public realm enables Aegina to lay down the foundations of a unique though short-lived experiment in human history?
I Am Hannah
Diffident and nervous Freja Madsen hardly seems to be an effective researcher in the project team appointed to renovate a nearly two hundred and fifty year old riverside inn. It is easy to ignore her, dismiss her findings, make fun of her ethnographic study. Silenced by an overbearing project head she is almost ready to quit her work. And then she finds what she has been looking for and over the next few days she is able to identify herself with one of the residents of the inn in the past. I Am Hannah is a story of struggles at multiple levels, of rewriting the right kind of history, and of unexplained character mergers with unforeseen results.
Showing Results Zero of Zero
Sanjay Khan Chowdhury arrives at a small village in India severing all ties with his before-life and self-indulges in the existence of a recluse. His placid life continues thus until he becomes the recipient of a message from the space. What follows thereafter is a drama of alternate hope and disappointment. A freelancer awaits a crackling ‘story’; a self-proclaimed spiritual leader longs for her moment of triumph; knowledgeable scientists oscillate between semi-belief and dismissal of Sanjay’s message as a silly prank of a freak outcast. Set in mid-twenty first century India, this is a relationship tale laced with Science fiction.
The Last Gift
Celebrated author Bappaditya Morena arrives on a long holiday at quiet and quaint Daman, a sleepy town on the western coastline of India one summer many decades ago. He brings with himself the memory of a dormant but much-alive history of violence, exodus, exile and suffering, none of which can be overcome by Mayurakshi Gupta, emerging into her own as an author out of the shadow of her mentor Morena. Love is inevitable between them, so is estrangement and bitterness, social awkwardness and emotional turbulence, and eventual sublimation and transcendence of it all. As literary craft and music fuse to take their love ahead, Mayurakshi discovers over decades the unlikely ways in which her mentor’s inspiration can weave magic for her. In addition to being a personal story of intimacy it is also a story of the history of the Seromon community to which Bappaditya belongs. The Last Gift is a story of intense intimacy, suppressed sexuality, turbulent memory, and restless desire, and the eventual victory of art and creativity over all else.
The Unknown Script
Young, spirited, talented src joins St William vanesan’s college, one of the most reputed in India, to make a meaningful and honest contribution to higher academics. But her hitherto cloistered life is deeply shaken as she discovers the secrets of her workplace and grows through all her struggles, heartbreaks and encounters. She matures to finally discover a new life in which she is firmly in control of the script of her life and all is perfect, until she meets father Abe whose mission in life is to pen a script which is unknown to src, and to all others….
Satirically Yours
“… the future of political satire depends on the future of the present regime.” This book is an innovative fusion between two different forays of writing. The fiction attempts to explore the causes, possibilities and consequences of political satire in post-colonial India through the lived experiences of a man in his early twenties- a man who is bold, persistent and unapologetic. It builds on an academic research work that presents a detailed writing on the nature, highlights, and the greater political dynamics contained within the use of satire in the politico-cultural space in India.
Where the Sky Feels Cold
A reticent Mehra family, comfortably nested in obscure kaudiyala on the lower folds of the Himalayas, is rocked by emotional unrest as their daughter Supriya provides refuge to Farooq, a Kashmiri student of temple art, a distantly related family br>Unit, empowered by a new citizenship law arrives and settles down with them, and Darshan, indifferent towards supriya’s love for him, comes in search of his love Farooq at a time of raging political crisis in India. In this novella four Lonely hearts redefine love, rediscover longing and explore the strings that continue to br>tug at their hearts in difficult times.
