Publish Date
17 Oct, 2025
About This Book
Fractured States is not only a story of a near-future alternate India but also a narrative of remembrance. It explores the aftermath of Partition, the Naxalite Movement, the rise and fall of communism in Bengal, and, above all, relationships between people, entities, and institutions and between space and time.
About The Author
Born in 1950 and brought up in Calcutta, once the Capital of British India, now that of truncated Bengal in post-independence India. In the course of his profession as a rural banker for forty years, he had the unique opportunity of living in tribal villages of Chhattisgarh, the hinterland of Central India. Now staying in Calcutta and engaged in reading and writing. He writes only in Bengali and translates from English and Hindi. His concern is the helplessness of an individual in the face of the might of the state. Since 2015, some sixteen publications, both fiction and non-fiction, go to his credit.
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