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‘Saba and her cat named Grey’ is the story of Saba, who had shifted to Calcutta, in the monsoon of twenty-sixteen, with a desk job, in a lifestyle magazine. It is a story about her daily struggle with the memories, from her past. The broken marriage. The escape from a government-sponsored pogrom. The pain. The loneliness. The misunderstandings. It is a story about her life in Calcutta. How she falls in love with the city. With its streets, its cafés, its people, their stories, their benevolence, and every other thing that makes the city so special.
The story talks about her experiences with the recipes that she discovers, over time. The emotions that they evoke, inside her. The memories that they help her, revisit. The politics of food. The socio-religious debate, intertwined with it. Of what can be eaten and what cannot be. Of what can be cooked and what is prohibited.
But mostly, the novella explores the connection that she has develops with her feline roommate, Grey.
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Durjoy Choudhury
Durjoy Choudhury is a musician and a video editor, by profession. He likes to think of himself, more as a casual author, who tries to translate the images, inside his head, into words. He feels that his inability to convey his feelings, to the world, has pushed him towards his literary adventures, be it songwriting or writing narratives.
After ‘Lockdown Narratives’, which is a collection of four fictional stories from four different lockdowns and that was published in 2020, he has published his first novella, ‘Saba and her cat named Grey’, in 2021.
