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| Amit Chaudhari |
A living Bengali writer. Famous and successful at that. I mean, I've read and liked a few Bengali writers like Tagore, Ashapoorna Devi, Ray....... but long after their demise. What do you do with puraskars n praises when you get it posthumously? So, Amit Chaudhari. He was born in Calcutta, brought up in Bombay and did college studies in UK. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and bagged Sahitya Akademi Award and Rabindra Puraskar and......many more important awards n accolades. Yeah, big shot he is. Wait... he can sing too. He is a renowned classical singer n composer. Apani mahana Amit bhai !
The book
A strange and sublime address is his first novella, an excellent autobiographical piece and he pockets Betty Trask Award and Commonwealth Writer's Prize for the best first book in 1991. Bravo ! The story is the account of Bombayite Sandeep's holiday visits to Calcutta. It takes you back to all those heavenly days spend in your mother's house during summer holidays ! Nostalgia. Euphoria. That's it. Rest of the nine stories sketches Calcutta of 90's in myriad colors. Actually the book should be renamed as 'Calcutta Tales'. Thanks to Picador omnibus, I enjoyed reading the stories and is eager to read the rest of the 2 novels. ♡
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