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Spotting Veron and other stories
Spotting Veron and other stories
by
Ankush Saikia
Category: Short Stories
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Number of pages: 192
Book Size: 5x7.75
Book Weight (Hardbound): gm
Book Weight (Paperback): 300 gm
Published in: 07/01/2011
Available in: Paperbound
ISBN_PB: 9788129118431
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The stories in this collection from Ankush Saikia range in locales from the Assam countryside to the Khasi hills, and from Delhi to London. ‘Two Ending’ deals with a superstitious paanwallah’s attempts to make sense of the increasing violence around him, while ‘The Test’ looks at an episode in the life of a Shillong schoolboy named Robert. ‘Jet City Woman’ recounts the adventures of a reluctant journalist over one night in India’s capital city, even as ‘Spotting Veron’ chronicles a long and atmospheric journey from north-east India to Delhi across the vast width of India. ‘The Dog at the Wedding’ returns to rural Assam for the tale of an orphan’s connection with a stray dog, and ‘A House in Laban’ examines the longings of a young man who is an exile from the hill town he grew up in. ‘Caught Somewhere in Time’ stays on in Shillong, with a now middle-aged and married Robert, and is a leisurely look at ordinary lives lived in forgotten places. ‘London’, which rounds off the collection, is on the other hand a meditation on the changing nature of our world, and how old connections can be found in new beginnings. Comprising of previously published and unpublished work, Saikia’s stories offer a glimpse into a lesser-known side of India.

About Author
Ankush Saikia No. of books available: 2
Ankush Saikia was born in Tezpur, Assam in 1975. He grew up in Madison, Wisconsin; Assam; and Shillong, Meghalaya. He has worked in journalism and publishing in New Delhi, where he is presently an editor at a publishing firm. In 2005, he was on the shortlist for the fourth Outlook/Picador-India non-fiction writing award. Jet City Woman is his first novel.

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