Writing Death – Ego: A Novel
Set in a nameless village in the early twentieth century Kerala, ‘Ego’ traces the inner lives and quiet devastations of those bound by familial duties and obligations.


Set in a nameless village in the early twentieth century Kerala, ‘Ego’ traces the inner lives and quiet devastations of those bound by familial duties and obligations.

New, modern translations of three of Premchand’s stories that were made into films by masters: Shatranj Ke Khilari and Sadgati by Satyajit Ray, and Kafan by Mrinal Sen (as Oka Oori Katha).

These stories show that a society can steer its people on to questionable paths. But some refuse to bow down despite wanting in power.



Set in a nameless village in the early twentieth century Kerala, ‘Ego’ traces the inner lives and quiet devastations of those bound by familial duties and obligations.

New, modern translations of three of Premchand’s stories that were made into films by masters: Shatranj Ke Khilari and Sadgati by Satyajit Ray, and Kafan by Mrinal Sen (as Oka Oori Katha).

These stories visit maternity wards, sex workers with deformities, and many other things that exist in reality but are kept away from fiction.



Set in a nameless village in the early twentieth century Kerala, ‘Ego’ traces the inner lives and quiet devastations of those bound by familial duties and obligations.

These stories show that a society can steer its people on to questionable paths. But some refuse to bow down despite wanting in power.

New, modern translations of three of Premchand’s stories that were made into films by masters: Shatranj Ke Khilari and Sadgati by Satyajit Ray, and Kafan by Mrinal Sen (as Oka Oori Katha).

Chowringhee Press is a new publishing imprint from India.



In the autumn of 1940, Rabindranath Tagore's short novel The Laboratory was published in the annual magazine brought out by the Bengali newspaper Anandabazar Patrika on the occasion of Durga Puja in Bengal.
