It was pure chance that i had come across this book at an exhibition at work. The back cover was interesting, a Bengali novel written more than a half century ago, translated into English in 2007. I picked it up and it turned out to be a good decision in the end. Chowringhee is a first person accoun...
Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01d0w2w/Drama_on_3_Chowringhee/Mani Shankar Mukerji's 'Chowringhee' is a gentle comedy of life in a grand Calcutta hotel in the late 1950s adapted for radio by Roger James Elsgood from a translation from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha. Blurb - The sto...
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