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Essential Items and Other Tales from a Land in Lockdown

Author :  Udayan Mukherjee

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Country
India
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publications India Pvt.ltd., New Delhi
ISBN 9789390252213
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2020
Bib. Info 257p.;20cm.
Product Weight 400 gms.
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A British climber stranded in the Himalayan border town of Munsiyari forms a bond with his host's seven-year-old grandson. Two funeral workers at a Benaras ghat try to work their way out of the dwindling business of cremations. A domestic worker, sent on paid leave, grapples with the shifting landscape for people on the margins of an urban metropolis. Hundreds of returning migrant workers turn up unannounced at the gates of an erstwhile Rajbari in Kolkata in the wake of a devastating cyclone. In Essential Items, Udayan Mukherjee examines oft overlooked human attributes - resilience, faith, endurance - put to test by a pandemic-forced lockdown. Written in stark, minimalist prose, these poignant but darkly funny stories expose deep cracks in our societal structures, papered over by the myth of growing prosperity.

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