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Go to any party, in any country, on any moonlit terrace of the world, the best dressed man is always the one from Patna.
In these nine interlinked stories we meet the not so quintessential Patna man-Hriday Thakur, Literature junkie, aspiring writer, inveterate lover of women and rain, Jishnu da, his acquaintance from Delhi University, who is now an importer of blondes Samuel Crown, the fastidious proofreader who mentors Hriday and instils in him an irrevocable ...
Patna and Delhi are twin cities. Separated by 700 miles. The stories in this collection reflect the socio-cultural ramifications of such a geographical anomaly, on a generation whose dreams are often cleaved in half between the cramped Mezzanine bedsitters in Kingsway camp and the dilapidated mansions of Kadam Kuan, Patna. These are with a few exception, stories of youth, love and loneliness and the attendant joy, alienation and heart break which comes along as a ...