Tales from the Margin

<p>Kolkata.<br />A city born out of colonial lust for power and profit of failed revolutions and relegated to the margins of capitalist world. A city according to many that is only worth leaving. <br />In this city a 73-year-old man discovers he has a special talent to attract women the world over a clerk is visited by a young woman’s ghost a sex worker dreams of travelling the world and an abandoned wife decides on an unusual revenge for her straying husband. <br />Meet these and the other denizens of the city in Debraj Bhattacharya’s riveting collection of short stories that celebrates the city.</p>