Brothers Sen Gogh
This is what immortality may mean, not a chain of infinite moments, but a moment that is immortalized in time for its permanence.
Soubhik and Sourav have grown up together, but are far apart in terms of their personalities. Soubhik is elder only by his numerical age, Sourav is the one who supports him.
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Whiskey and Suicide
Whiskey and Suicide paints a kaleidoscope of myriad emotions of the Indian middle class families. In a very informal storytelling style, it narrates the dilemmas of the urban families in dealing with the conflicting emotions arising due to contradictory desires.
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Pink Lines On a Dark Sky
He is a writer.
She is an engineer.
He writes poems to her.
She teaches maths to him at lunch.
They know each other since they are eleven.
They think they have problems. They just don’t know what’s coming.
In September 2010, their world turns upside down. Will they survive the biggest crisis of their lives? Read More or Buy It
Her Revenge
With this diverse collection of short stories, Manik Bal continues to explore the bizarre in the mundane, and the mundane in the bizarre.
Exploring seemingly ordinary characters as a caretaker of a shared accommodation, a construction supervisor, and an out of job stay at home husband, every story weaves a heady cocktail of ordinary and unbelievable.
The characters cheat each other with glee, but also display loyalty, even at a possible cost of their lives. The narrative shows the danger of the destructive ire of a spurned partner, yet shows the power of silent, long term marital love.
The book is dedicated to the city of Mumbai, or Bombay as it was called. Several stories take place when the city was called Bombay, and the internet and cell phone were not very common.