The book is a laudable attempt to bring stories dealing with illnesses, cures, patients, attendants, doctors, vaids, hakims — and quacks from the bhashas into English. One can see the parallels with the Covid pandemic especially in a story like ‘Quarantine’ and view illness as a metaphor for various human life situations emerging strongly through the stories. The ‘Introduction’ traces …
Instead of the TMC’s Firhad Hakims, Jyotipriyo Mullicks and Arup Biswases, who constituted West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s constellation, with many high-profile departments piled on them, the CM’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, 34, is giving importance to fresh faces. Roy, quite new in the game of handling a department, was nevertheless chosen because TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee saw …
