Thackeray Mansion

In this sequel to Chowringhee the third instalment in the life and tribulations of the naïve and innocent young Shanker he is once again out of a job and without a roof on his head. After much difficulty he finds a job as a manager in a grand but crumbling building in the posh area of the city Thackeray Mansion on Scudder Street. The narrator directs his keen eye and sympathetic ear to tell captivating stories of those who live in the homes within a home of Thackeray Mansion and those who work in it. The mysterious disappearance of Philip sahib's wife the hilarious monologues of the feisty Poppy Biswas and the grouchy Baradaprasanna the seductive Sulekha Sen who morphs into the respectable Seema Chatterjee and the love of Dorothy Watts for Rabindranath Tagore stories nestle within stories and the result is an astonishing novel filled with joys and sorrows laughter and tears despair and hope. About the Author Sankar (Mani Sankar Mukherji) is one of Bengal's most widely read novelists in recent times. He also has several non-fiction bestsellers including a biography of Swami Vivekananda to his credit. Two of his novels Seemabaddha (Company Limited) and Jana Aranya (The Middleman) were turned into films by Satyajit Ray. He lives and works in Kolkata.Sandipan Deb is an IIT-IIM graduate who wandered into journalism after reading a quote from filmmaker George Lucas-‘Everyone's cage door is open'-and has stayed there (in journalism not a cage) since 1990. He has been managing editor of Outlook editor of The Financial Express and the founder-editor of Open magazine. Currently he is an independent writer/editor and managing partner of Aardvark Media a boutique media-agnostic publishing house.Sandipan is the author of three books. The IITians The story of an extraordinary Indian institution and how its alumni are transforming the world was published in 2004. Fallen Angel The making and unmaking of Rajat Gupta and his novel The Last War a reimagining of the Mahabharata set in the Mumbai underworld were both published in December 2012.