Bøker av K. Kumar Bhattacharyya

Ishaan, a young man, and Anand Dada, an old man, live lonely lives in the same apartment building in New Delhi. Being neighbours they soon become friends. Suddenly Baby, a little orphan girl, comes into their lives after her mother disappears after a bomb blast set off by terrorists and Anand Dada takes on the responsibility of upbringing Baby. But Baby and Anand Dada were destined to be separated ... and Anand Dada destined to lead a lonely old age. Spring Also Comes is the story of Anand Dada's struggle against loneliness and alcoholism after being separated from Baby. Ishaan is his only help and support. It is also about Baby's lonely and often hopeless fight to be re-united with Anand Dada. Will a little girl's lonely fight succeed?Narrated by Ishaan and set in New Delhi, Spring Also Comes, is a poignant tale about the plight of victims of terrorism and about the loneliness of ordinary individuals in big cities. The moving relationships among lives made seemingly meaningless by plain loneliness and the struggle of lonely people for worthwhile relationships in hopeless situations is movingly depicted. Spring Also Comes is a novel about the ultimate victory of the human spirit over terrorism and loneliness in Mr Bhattacharyya's concise, bare and deceptively simple prose In 2005 Mr Bhattacharyya published his first novel, Of Another Time. Spring Also Comes (2010) is Mr Bhattacharyya's second novel.

Of Another Time is a novel about the childhood adventures of Emon Barua, Barua, Kansan Konwar, Jai Saikia, Rupa Choudhuri and Puja Barua as they grow up in their neighbourhood in the banks of the mighty Brahmaputra. Set in the heart of India's North-East in the closing decades of the last century at a time when insurgency and terrorism was at its height not only in the North-East but other parts of India. In Of Another Time the contemporary Indian soceity has been shown through the eyes of children and all types of characters appear. The fortunes of some characters ends happily while the fortunes of some ends in tragedy. Both ordinary and extra-ordinary incidents fill the pages of the novel. Murders, bank robberies and other evils of contemporary Indian soceity like oppression of women and dowry are realistically narrated. Of Another Time(2005) is Mr Bhattacharyya's first novel. Mr Bhattacharyya has also published two other novels, Spring Also Comes(2010) and Fading Away.

"Back Blurb Of Fading Away(Novel) By K. Kumar Bhattacharyya. Situated below the majestic eastern Himalayas, India's North East has the dubious distinction of being home to the highest number of insurgent organizations in the world. Like much of India till lately, insurgency and violence had dominated the social life of India's North East and its fun loving people. Then things started changing, insurgency started disappearing and development and peace started taking its place. In Fading Away Mr Bhattacharyya tells the story of North East India's common people's struggle with insurgency and violence through his life like characters. Besides his realistic portrayal of 'misguided youths', Mr Bhattacharyya also captures the beauty and glory of North East India and the eastern Himalayas as it is something he knows so well. Fading Away is centred around Rhon Bhagwati and his friend, Dhruva Choudhuri, and their involvement in insurgency which ultimately ruins their lives and career. Later Rhon's wife, Priya, and then Dhruva, meets violent deaths. After this Rhon starts distancing himself from his insurgent past. In this he is helped by his childhood love, Laura Brown. In Fading Away the problems of 'misguided youths', some of whom came to be branded as 'insurgents' and 'terrorists', is closely examined. Innocent young lives gets completely ruined by momentary and chance involvement with insurgency and terror. Like Mr Bhattacharyya's other novels Fading Away is also about friendship among young people and inherent loneliness of man. Set in the background of Rhon's and his insurgent companions life on the run among the majestic eastern Himalayas, and the love between Laura and Rhon, which, is destine