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Traversing the streets of Calcutta in his one-and-a-half slippers, our dark lanky hero, variously known as Bhushan Chacha, Kulbhushan Jain and Gopal Chandra Das, wanders a maze of memories, searching for himself. Like many East Bengalis scarred by the trauma of Partition, he has trained himself to dive into forgetfulness. By punching the ‘button of forgetting’―a mantra taught to him by his childhood friend Shyama Dhobi―he can induce instant amnesia and survive the suffocating, alien streets and the belittlements of his Marwari relatives, whose household drudgery he shoulders. But forgetfulness has a cost.
Shyama, too, is more than he seems. Delivered into his parents’ lap by an itinerant fakir and blessed with admirable resourcefulness, he rises through the ranks. He transforms from washerman to rickshaw-puller to trusted confidante of cotton mill-owning Bengali aristocrats―all amid the mounting communal violence and brutality of the West Pakistani army that sets the stage for the Bangladesh Liberation War. When injustice becomes unbearable, Shyama is compelled to join the freedom fighters in search of redress and meaning.
At once humorous, sincere and philosophical, Register Me as Kulbhushan is a modern epic of exile and the fundamental human need to belong.
Alka Saraogi is a Hindi author from Kolkata belonging to the Marwari diaspora. Her first novel, Kali-Katha Via Bypass, won a Sahitya Akademi Award in 2001, making her the youngest Hindi writer ever to win the award. She is also the recipient of the K.K. Birla Foundation Award, Indu Sharma International Katha Samman, Kalinga Literary Festival Book Award, Valley of Words (VoW) Award, Dayawati Modi Stree Shakti Samman and Fakir Mohan National Literary Award. She was knighted ‘Cavaliere’ by the Government of Italy.
Saraogi has published nine novels and two short-story collections. She has been translated into many Indian regional languages as well as European languages, such as German, Italian, Spanish and French.
John Vater is an American writer and literary translator. He is co-translator of The Play of Dolls: Stories by Hindi author Kunwar Narain and co-author of More Than the Eye Can See: Memoirs of Gopinath Pillai. Register Me as Kulbhushan is his third book.
Vater is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Literary Translation Workshop, was a Fulbright–Nehru scholar and has attended the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) in Banff, Canada, among other residencies. His translations and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Words Without Borders, Two Lines: A Journal of Translation, Asia Literary Review, The Bombay Review, Indian Literature and Carnegie India.
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