Panty (PB)

Darkly glamorous and fiercely erotic heroines take centre stage in these two novellas. . In Panty when a mysterious young woman arrives in Calcutta and moves into a guest house 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 feeling 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 dutyhas an unconsummated but passionate affair with a famous musician that leaves her shattered. In the nightmarish sequence of events that follows 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.