The NameFake

“Her resolve was absolute. So was her vodka.” I wake up on my seventeenth birthday to receive an out of the ordinary gift - a cryptic letter and a million dollar cheque from my grandfather whom I had been raised to believe was dead. Fascinated and puzzled on hearing from my long-lost relative Kamal Chakravarti in such strange and spectacular fashion I embark on a journey to find him through his three brothers the Chakravartis. The Chakravartis are old and wizened each of them recapping a part of my grandfathers life that takes us back in place and time in vivid detail. Comically bumbling along this terrain of wayward youth with me are my three friends – a poet a playboy and a peddler – as we collect pieces of information that come together like a magical puzzle eventually leading me to my grandfathers porch! The Name Fake is a humorous narrative on the Indian upper class friendship and family love and the loss of it and the highs and lows of coming of age in the Millennial generation.