{"product_id":"truth-digger-the-best-of-shovon-chowdhury-9789391047917","title":"Truth Digger The Best Of Shovon Chowdhury","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sharmila Chowdhury \u0026amp; Sandipan Deb\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Aleph Book Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Aleph Book Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The very best work of the acclaimed humorist Shovon Chowdhury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The author of the critically acclaimed dystopian novels The Competent Authority and Death with Bengali \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Characteristics, Shovon Chowdhury was a writer with a razor-sharp wit whose work blended the bizarre \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e with the profound. Part-jester, part-rationalist, he employed his terrific sense of humour (often directed \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e at himself) to put an absurd spin on reality. Besides generous excerpts from his widely praised novels, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e in the section entitled 'The Investigator' the book presents a selection from his longest-running column \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e with the tagline 'We dig for the truth. So you don't have to'; 'We the People' is a series of reactions to the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e increasingly bewildering political world; 'The 4-Minute Manager(TM)' aims to make a management guru \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e out of everyone; 'Ask Uncle' carries advice from your friendly neighbourhood uncle; 'What If' presents \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e alternate histories from the Chinese capturing Assam to Madhuri never performing 'Ek, Do, Teen' and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e more; also included are poetry and the previously unpublished piece, 'I Lost My Trousers in Tiljala'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Wildly funny, thought-provoking, and thoroughly entertaining, Truth Digger pays tribute to one of our \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e finest comic writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aleph Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45675072454807,"sku":"9789391047917","price":325.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789391047917.webp?v=1769295492","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/truth-digger-the-best-of-shovon-chowdhury-9789391047917","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}