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While They Crossed the Border narrates the migration of a host of people under political and socio-economic reasons, the inner theme is essentially a different type of migration. It’s a shift in behaviour of people as they gain vintage through their journey in life. The book tells the tales of every individual character belonging to the dynasty appeared and depicted in the story. Also a number of individuals are seen hovering around the main episodes. Your authors have consciously interwoven them in the main stream. Thus, under the cover of a true story, “They Crossed the Border” transports the readers to a realm of psychology analyzing the characteristic features and acts of the individuals episode by episode as they move through the book.
Gautam Gan, Sreyashi Gan
GAUTAM GAN Born on April 23, 1953 Gautam Gan grew up in a joint family surrounded by grandparents, uncles and aunties in a household that gave importance to culture and literature. Graduated with Honours in English from St.Paul’s College the author completed his MA from Jadavpur University and entered the professional world of Banking in 1974. After 35 years of journey through ten banks in India and also testing the soil of Micro Finance for a couple of years, Gautam Gan did hang up his boot and picked up his pen to unfold his heart and narrate his experience through stories and poems. We thus come across publication of two books namely “Confessions of a Banker” and “Retail – the Lifestyle Banking” in 2016 and 2019 respectively. Additionally his poetic soul found its way through two books – “Ratnabali” and “Nourelle”. “They Crossed the Border” is a tale that tells the story of migration of a zaminder family from a hamlet in present day Bangladesh to India post partition. A committed member of Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD) and Calcutta Management Association (CMA) Gautam Gan is Director on the various Boards of M.P.Birla Group.
SREYASHI GAN Sreyashi, the co-author of the book is popularly known as Sneha in know circle and is the daughter of Gautam Gan. An Honours graduate in Psychology from Sophia College, Mumbai, the young author obtained her MSc in International Human Resource Management from UK. Her poem “Looking Back” was published by GREENSPRING PUBLISHING, USA in their collection of poetic works, “Voices” where among 56 poets, her composition was the only poem representing from Asia.
