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Tag: rebirth

Memories of Another Calcutta Re-incarnation

Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost-Eye carries echoes of Satyajit Ray’s 1971 Feluda thriller Sonar Kella A book cover (left) and film poster for Sonar Kella Though I rarely read beyond Bengali novels in recent years, I was drawn to Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost-Eye because it seemed to reverse the central premise of Satyajit Ray’s Sonar Kella. A beloved film for many Bengalis of…