Sumana Roy is the author of two works of nonfiction, 'How I Became a Tree' and 'Provincials', as well as 'Missing: A Novel, My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories', and two collections of poems, 'Out of Syllabus' and 'VIP: Very Important Plant'.
Being around Maya-mashi was like living in a forest.
She was short enough to be taunted as a dwarf, thin enough to have her shadow be mistaken for a reed’
Narayan Debnath is a name that will not strike most Southasians as odd, surrounded as we are by friends with names like Shiva, Mohammad and Jesus, a man-god symbiosis in