To the police, Basant Kumar maintained that the evening of September 29, 1949 had passed quite typically in the Dalvi household. The parents and the daughter had been discussing her engagement, the ...

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“Time passed, it seemed to him, not so much because the sun sank almost imperceptibly in the sky but because it changed colour in its descent. Its yellow turned to light orange and with it, the water ...

Thirty years after the success of English, August, Upamanyu Chatterjee returns with a potboiler full with beef politics, civil service absurdities, and his trademark black comedy. The account of a ...

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For nearly four decades now, Upamanyu Chatterjee has donned these two very different hats, of a bureaucrat and a novelist, with equal panache and felicity. With as many as nine novels to his credit, ...

Author Upamanyu Chatterjee, a bureaucrat based in Delhi now, rarely concedes to interviews; he emerges from his self-imposed solitude in the rare occasions of book launches (the release of his newest ...