Debalputra Gunjon

Gargee Sanyal was small and fair and easy to underestimate. First impressions suggested a housewife. Under some pressure, perhaps a schoolteacher — primary, not secondary. Nobody looking at her would volunteer the secondary school; she didn’t have the bearing for a classroom that needed managing. She was a High Court judge. Thirty-five years old, elevated … Read more

Not long ago, a madman worked the Gariahat crossing. He showed up at dawn with the traffic sergeants and stayed till the sodium lamps came on. Matted hair, a beard that had long since stopped being a beard and become something geological, an oilskin shirt, trousers held at the waist by a length of nylon … Read more