Clouds

Mumbai is vast, with more people sailing into it than out. Chances are that two people, in separate corners of this near 3-hour wide city, have similar views, a common thread that could bind them together. Now, a mutual friend thinks that this connection can lead to a lasting bond and introduces the......more

CLOUDS, Chandrahas Choudhury’s second fiction, has come out a good nine years after his first novel, ARZEE THE DWARF. Why such a long gap, especially, when the earlier one won so much accolade and awards? Well, you can’t question an author’s moods. But I know one thing, he has been at it ever since......more

In his characteristically witty and descriptive writing, the author tells two parallel stories set in Bombay. The thoughts and people that weave in and out of their lives reveal dimensions of a rapidly changing India, and yet one that is very much still set in its own ways.......more

It's great to discover a writer in whom one can get lost. Sometimes whimsical, sometimes with thought-provoking lines, Clouds by Chandrahas Choudhury is fun and quirky and philosophical.......more

Mumbai is vast, with more people sailing into it than out. Chances are that two people, in separate corners of this near 3-hour wide city, have similar views, a common thread that could bind them together. Now, a mutual friend thinks that this connection can lead to a lasting bond and introduces the......more