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Joram (Film tie-in edition)
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HarperCollins India
| Author:
Devashish Makhija
| Language:
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Time is arguably our biggest enemy. And memory, perhaps, our greatest curse. Which
makes forgetting the hardest thing to do.
Identical-twin rickshaw drivers are wrongly suspected of terrorism in paranoid Bombay;
a Calcutta merchant envies each saree he sells for the intimacy it’ll share with the
woman who buys it; an illicit love affair is conducted over nine potent text messages; a
lonely astronaut sings out loud, hoping his voice will find an ear somewhere; adivasis,
jawans, Naxalites, policemen and journalists in Orissa are caught in a web of violence
unleashed on them by both their own histories and that of a nation helplessly repeating
it.
Here are forty-nine stories that speak to the power of forgetting.
Stories of difficult pasts, and the struggle to leave them behind.
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Time is arguably our biggest enemy. And memory, perhaps, our greatest curse. Which
makes forgetting the hardest thing to do.
Identical-twin rickshaw drivers are wrongly suspected of terrorism in paranoid Bombay;
a Calcutta merchant envies each saree he sells for the intimacy it’ll share with the
woman who buys it; an illicit love affair is conducted over nine potent text messages; a
lonely astronaut sings out loud, hoping his voice will find an ear somewhere; adivasis,
jawans, Naxalites, policemen and journalists in Orissa are caught in a web of violence
unleashed on them by both their own histories and that of a nation helplessly repeating
it.
Here are forty-nine stories that speak to the power of forgetting.
Stories of difficult pasts, and the struggle to leave them behind.
About Author
DEVASHISH MAKHIJA has researched and assisted on the movies Black Friday and
Bunty aur Babli; written numerous screenplays, notably Bhoomi and Anurag Kashyap's
forthcoming Doga; made the acclaimed short films Rahim Murge Pe Mat Ro and
El'ayichi; has had a solo art show 'Occupying Silence'; written Tulika's best-selling
children's books When Ali became Bajrangbali and Why Paploo Was Perplexed; been
featured in the short-story anthologies Mumbai Noir, Penguin First Proof 7, Eid Stories
and Being Boys; writes terribly tiny fiction at
http://terriblytinytales.com/author/devashish/; and recently directed the full length
feature film Oonga. Most of him can be found at www.nakedindianfakir.com. The rest
of him, they say, is currently under construction.
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