Parimal Bhattacharya is an associate professor in the Department of English, Maulana Azad College, Kolkata, and a bilingual writer, most recently, of Dodopakhider Gaan (Ababhash, 2019) and No Path in Darjeeling Is Straight: Memories of a Hill Town(Speaking Tiger, 2017).
BOOK EXCERPT: To know it intimately, one must step out of the broad roads and take the twisting hill tracks and steep side trails. Local people call them chor bato.