Tuesday, April 20, 2010

A Long Day's Night

Educated at Calcutta, Indiana and Rice Universities, Pradip Ghosh taught at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for more than three decades. He also taught as a Visiting Professor at University of Hawaii, University of California Berkeley, and Pomona College among others. His book in science have been published by Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi; John Wiley & Sons, New York; and Clarendon Press, Oxford. This is his first work of fiction.

On a small university campus in India, Virendra Chauhan-a research scientist-and his students are trying to set right a key instrument which has failed to function since its arrival from abroad. The faulty machine and attempts to make it work form the core of the narrative, which is as much an allegory of Indian science as of the human spirit - its sorrows and joys, strife and peace, its unending quest. The account is rooted in the quotidian particulars of campus life and of contemporary social reality, though the tightness of form in classical.

ISBN: 9788129114983
Published by: Rupa & Co
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