Book Review: Rukhsat by Sujit Banerjee
Rukhsat, The Departure by Sujit Banerjee contain twenty-six short stories with twenty-six such characters who take you into the bubbly mysterious alcove of the mind. Here the identical narrative comes animate in two different ways, through two different protagonists with stories suspended between mystery, that speak to us of the evils of the soul, and the hidden follies. The book is condensed in property forms of merciless revenge, love and hate to murky and criminal events from many faces. They are sometimes improbable and sometimes ruthless with experiments to limit the nightmare with myriad characters. There is the determined prostitute to the guy on the railway station bereft of any memory. There is a lady anxious for a baby to a departed man’s trial. There is a green-eyed lover with a perverted brain to a gay man’s reminiscence of a one-night encounter. This is a unique anthology of its kind with a literary project that usher in a new era of nightmares for readers who will hav