{"product_id":"forgetting-9789351364726","title":"Forgetting","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Devashish Makhija\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: HarperCollins India\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins India\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (Single Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen. You. Wake. Up. Tomorrow. Everything. Will. Be. Just. The. Same. Yet. Different. Time is arguably our biggest enemy. And memory, perhaps, our greatest curse. Which makes forgetting the hardest thing to do. These are stories of difficult pasts, and the struggle to leave them behind. Identical-twin rickshaw drivers are wrongly suspected of terrorism in paranoid Bombay; a Calcutta merchant envies each saree he sells for the intimacy it’ll share with the woman who buys it; an illicit love affair is conducted over nine potent text messages; a lonely astronaut sings out loud, hoping his voice will find an ear somewhere; adivasis, jawans, Naxalites, policemen and journalists in Orissa are caught in a web of violence unleashed on them by both their own histories and that of a nation helplessly repeating it. Forty-nine tales that speak of the power of forgettingAbout the AuthorDEVASHISH MAKHIJA has researched and assisted on the movies ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Bunty aur Babli’; written numerous screenplays, notably ‘Bhoomi’ and Anurag Kashyap’s forthcoming ‘Doga’; made the acclaimed short films ‘Rahim Murge pe mat ro’ and ‘El’ayichi’; has had a solo art show ‘Occupying Silence’; written Tulika’s best-selling children’s books ‘When Ali became Bajrangbali’ and ‘Why Paploo was perplexed’; been featured in the short story anthologies ‘Mumbai Noir’, ‘Penguin First Proof 7’, ‘Eid stories’ and ‘Being boys’; writes terribly tiny fiction at http:\/\/terriblytinytales.com\/author\/devashish\/; and recently directed the full length feature film ‘Oonga’.Most of him can be found at www.nakedindianfakir.com. The rest of him, they say, is currently under construction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins India","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46338650079383,"sku":"9789351364726","price":260.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789351364726.webp?v=1769305319","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/forgetting-9789351364726","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}