Panty

Darkly glamorous and fiercely erotic heroines take the centre stage in these two novellas. In Panty when a mysterious young woman arrives in Calcutta and moves into a guesthouse she finds in an otherwise empty wardrobe a soft and silky panty in leopard-skin print. She thinks the woman who wore it must have possessed a wild sexual nature. A sensation of companionship envelops her; the sexual lives of the two women begin to mingle and blur.In Hypnosis another young woman-a TV journalist on perpetual night duty-has an unconsummated but passionate affair with a famous musician that leaves her shattered. In a nightmarish sequence of events that follow she allows herself to be hypnotized and drugged to aid her search for love.Exposing our darkest desires and deepest fears when it comes to love the effect of Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay’s ferocious storytelling is deliciously anarchic and deeply unsettling. About the Author Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a newspaper columnist and film critic. She lives and writes in Kolkata. When Panty was first published in Bengali it created a furore - a reaction that is par for the course for her. Her controversial first novel Shankini made for an explosive debut. Since then she has published nine novels and over fifty short stories.Arunava Sinha translates fiction poetry and non-fiction from Bengali to English and from English to Bengali. Over sixty of his translations have been published so far and several of them have won or been shortlisted for Indian and international awards.