• ISBN13: 9789381523049
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction
• Publisher: Niyogi Books
• Publisher Imprint: Niyogi Books
• Publication Date: August 18, 2011
• Pages: 184
• Original Price: INR 295.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 216 grams

Nineteen forty-two, Delhi. A young Bengali England-returned journalist finds himself in the capital as the controversy over the Cripps Mission gathers momentum. Crafted in the form of an accidental travelogue, collated from the letters of the young man to a lady friend, Vignettes en Route (Drishtipaat) is a deeply reflective account of the capital city, its complex multi-layered history and myths, with liberal injections of humour and spirit. Peopled with vividly drawn characters, Jajabor’s eye for detail has created a fascinating account of Delhi in the 1940s. This remarkable book will charm the reader, and particularly show how Delhi continues to be a city where immigrants come and meet people who are exact replicas of characters born of Jajabor’s pen! Vignettes en Route is an engaging translation of the original Bengali novel Drishtipaat.

Jajabor alias Binay Kumar Mukhopadhyay was born in 1908 and at the age of thirty-eight, shot into literary fame with his very first book Drishtipaat, published in 1946. An Information Officer with the Government of India he was based in Delhi and was peripatetic in nature. He followed up Drishtipaat with another belles-lettres entitled Janantik (1952) and a historical account about Kashmir strife called Jhilam Nadir Tirey(1954). Binay Kumar Mukhopadhyay passed away in 2002 at the ripe old age of ninety-four.