Eclectic crime fiction & informed, irreverent non-fiction from Asia & beyond
With the publication of my novella collection Kolkata Noir, I was trying to think of my favorite reads about Calcutta/Kolkata and I came up with a short list of titles. Check out my top 5 favorite books on Calcutta. Check out my story collection, Kolkata Noir.
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Book Bloom, an Indian reviewer, has high praise for Kolkata Noir. …One thing that I want to add is that the way the author illustrated Indian Culture(Bengali Culture) is speechless. I have never thought that a foreign author can write about Indian culture this well. The way the author explains the Rath Yatra(Indian festival) is […]
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My novella collection Kolkata Noir is finally out with Next Chapter. During the Raj, Calcutta was the world’s second most economically powerful metropolis. In 2019, Kolkata, eastern India’s largest city, stands at a crossroads. Unlike Delhi and Mumbai, the West Bengal Capital is anything but an economic powerhouse. Its remote eastern location and decades of […]
Continue ReadingI am talking about Kolkata, a city close to my heart, to Talk Travel Asia this week. I was in Kolkata as a participant of the Indo European Artist Residency last year. The Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan invited me to write crime fiction set in the West Bengal capital. The result, a series of novellas […]
Continue ReadingMy Indo-European Artitst Residency in Kolkata is wrapping up in a couple of weeks. Destroy Everything Beautiful – a series of photos I took during my meanderings through the city will be exhibited this week at Experimenter Gallery in Ballygunge. I am giving a reading of the crime fiction – 2 novellas and a short […]
Continue ReadingSelecting and preparing images for my first photo exhibition ‘Destroy Everything Beautiful’, at Outpost Experimenter Gallery in Kolkata, complimenting the work of artists Aditi Aggarwal and Sophie Starck. Huge thanks to Max Mueller Bhavan/ Goethe Institut for support and encouragement, particularly Sharmistha Sarker and Frieso Maecker. I am indebted to writer Aurko Maitra without whom […]
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