Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 938622870X |
ISBN-13 | 9789386228703 |
No of pages | 301 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Juggernaut |
Published Date | 30 Jun 2018 |
Amitabha Bagchi was born in Delhi and went to school there. The last few years of school was a blur of exams - Junior Science Talent Search, National Talent Search, Annual Math’s and Physics Olympiads - and coaching classes to prepare for those exams.
He finally found himself at IIT Delhi in the summer of 1992 thinking that the worst was over. It wasn't.
Belying the expectations raised by his uninspiring performance at IIT, Amitabha got his PhD in Computer Science in 2002.
Then, after loitering around for a couple of years with the nebulous designation of post-doc, he returned to IIT Delhi where he is currently employed as an assistant professor.
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The celebrated Hindi novelist Vishwanath is heartbroken by the recent loss of his son in an accident. The tragedy spurs him to write a novel set in the household of Lala Gopichand. It follows the lives of the wealthy lama and his three sons: Self-confident Dinanath, the true heir to Gopichand’s mercantile temperament, lonely Devachan, uninterested in business and steeped in poetry; and illegitimate Machan Lal, a Marx-loving schoolteacher kept to the periphery of his father’s life.
In an illuminating act of self-reflection, Vishwanath, the son of a cook for a rich shoji, also tells the story of the lama’s personal servant, Mange Ram and his son, Parsed. Fatherhood, brotherhood and childhood, love, loyalty and poetry all come to the fore as sons and servants await the lama’s death. By writing about mortality and family, Vishwanath confronts the wreckage of his own life while seeking to make sense of the new India that came into being after independence. Spellbinding and penetrating, Half the Night Is Gone raises questions of religion, literature and society that speak to our fractured times.