No Path in Darjeeling is Straight: Memories of a Hill Town - Parimal Bhattacharya

Hardcover/Language: English

For a few years in the early 1990s—at a time when the embers of a violent agitation for Gorkhaland were slowly dying down—Parimal Bhattacharya taught at the Government College in Darjeeling. This book is a memory of his time in the iconic town and one of the finest works of Indian non-fiction in recent years.

With empathy and in shimmering prose, No Path in Darjeeling Is Straight, effortlessly merges travel, history, literature, memory, politics and the pleasures of ennui into an unforgettable portrait of a place and its people.