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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Gaam's roommate boasts of an astrologer who can allegedly predict his future lovemaking pattern and diagnose upcoming ailments. Sadistic professors with an agenda to fail their students are counter-attacked by a plethora of cheating talents with out-of-the-box ideas in exam hall and legendary answers in viva. An online friend who turns out to be a doggedly persuasive, mild-mannered, religious fanatic.
Plans to form a musical band 'Whistling Woods' finally bears fruit. A precocious schoolgirl's crush for her teacher. The night of the leopard print underwear. Mystery of the sperm donor. A merciless, doctorless treatment in a remote village.
.. and many more adventures of Gaam, Lokha, Handu, Holy-One and Slash continue in this third and final novel of the addictive College trilogy.
"An honest, relatable account of what college life entails and the humour in the book only reaffirms the story's honesty and reality. Based in East India, this book is a perfect brew of everything in the right proportion. The author's narrative style reflects good penmanship, introspection and is extremely approachable in its casual language. Try putting it down once you start reading it!"
-- Notion Press Editors' Pick 2017 (On second book of the trilogy)
Gumlat Maio
Gumlat Ong Maio has written three novels Once Upon a Time in College and its sequels Part 2 and Part 3, which form the College trilogy and two volumes of collection of cartoons called Cheap Pencil. His second novel was selected among the top three books of the month by Notion Press Editors’ Pick, Chennai in 2017.
He has been honored by the Arunachal Pradesh State Government with the Governor’s Young Achievers Award 2018 for literature. He is also a recipient of the Indian Awaz ‘100 Inspiring Authors of India’ award in the same year. His poems and short stories have been published in online journals like The Little Journal of Northeast India, Twist and Twain, NEWF Online and The Northeast Today.
He is also a cartoonist and his cartoons are regularly uploaded on his Facebook page Once Upon a Time Somewhere which has over 25,000 followers and has been visited over ten million times by Facebook users after some of the cartoons went viral.
He works as a Medical Officer under the Arunachal Pradesh State government. He is a member of North-East Writers Forum and Arunachal Pradesh Literary Society.
