Digesting India – The Tribune India – Travel India Alone

Thirty years’ price experiences with the three issues that Zac O’Yeah loves probably the most about life — consuming, ingesting and travelling — make for this pleasant travel-cum-food e-book. ‘Digesting India’ is an entertaining and informative journey explored by the Scandinavian-origin Indian novelist. Right here we study dishes we might by no means have heard of, and meals habits we by no means knew existed. He takes readers by means of the pleasures of ingesting beer in Bengaluru, toddy in Kerala, and consuming boiled greens and masala-less curries in Sevagram, Maharashtra, to organize him for the wealthy crimson ‘lal maas’ in Rajasthan. He discovers Goa’s literati tradition sipping cashew fenny, finds two of his favorite meals — mushrooms and cheese — in Bhutan and finds out what astronauts eat and drink in outer house.

Getting into the Maze: Queer Fiction of Krishnagopal Mallick Translated from Bengali by Niladri R Chatterjee. Niyogi Books. Pages 176. Rs 350

Krishnagopal Mallick’s tales are primarily tales of Kolkata: of complicated, meandering lanes and by-lanes, of muddy roads, of crowded buses. And over all of it is unfold his homoerotic gaze and sensibility. His unselfconscious prose pulls readers right into a life lived with honesty and pleasure. Not often has Bengali literature witnessed such clear-eyed narratives of private and non-private violence, sexuality, and humour. These translations introduce to the readers a craftsman of deadpan story-telling who infuses North Kolkata with a queer radiance unmatched in Indian writing. Mallick has lengthy languished in obscurity and this quantity seeks to introduce and add him to the quickly increasing canon of Indian queer writing. The translator, Niladri R Chatterjee, is Professor, Division of English, College of Kalyani.

The Treasure of the Khasi Hills by Hemendra Kumar Roy. Translated by Jashodhara Chakraborti. Talking Tiger. Pages 176. Rs 299

Credited with creating the genres of horror, speculative fiction and journey for kids in fashionable Bengali fiction, creator Hemendra Kumar Roy’s books have enthralled generations of younger readers for almost a century now. Initially titled ‘Jawkher Dhon’, ‘The Treasure of the Khasi Hills’ options journey duo Bimal and Kumar. In a trunk containing his late grandfather’s possessions, Kumar finds a human cranium. On trying fastidiously, he discovers that there are tiny carvings on it — a code to a treasure! With Bimal, he deciphers the code and the 2 set off to seek out the treasure that’s hidden within the stunning Khasi hills. With a villain ready to waylay them in each nook, deep darkish caves with wild animals, ghosts, and yaksha guarding the treasure, can Bimal and Kumar elude all of them and succeed?

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