BOOKS PUBLISHED

SABA AND HER CAT NAMED GREY

Notionpress. 2021.

The story of a woman who had shifted to Calcutta, in the monsoon of 2016, with a desk job, in a lifestyle magazine. It is a story about her daily struggles with her past memories. The broken marriage. The escape from a government-sponsored pogrom. The pain. The loneliness. The misunderstandings. It is a story about her life in Calcutta. How she falls in love with the city. Its streets. Its cafés. The people. Their stories. Their benevolence. And every other thing that makes the city so special.

The story talks about her experiences with the recipes that she discovers, over time. The emotions that they evoke, inside her. The memories that they help her, revisit. The politics of food. The socio-religious debate, intertwined with it. Of what can be eaten and what cannot be. Of what can be cooked and what is prohibited.

But mostly, the novella explores the connection that she develops with her feline roommate, Grey

LOCKDOWN NARRATIVES

Notionpress. 2020.

Four stories from four different lockdowns - the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, the 2019-20 Kashmir lockdown, the 1918-19 H1N1 flu pandemic lockdown in Italy, and a future lockdown from 2032.

Four stories that talk about love, passion, death and revolutions; but more importantly lingers around the idea of 'isolation of the human mind' and the determination behind the efforts to break out of it.