Devashish Makhija

Devashish Makhija spends his life being driven to manic curiosity about little things (like why is the ‘butter-fly’ not called, more befittingly, the ‘flutter-by’?). To distract himself from such insomnia-inducing questions he writes screenplays, stories, poetry, makes films, does graphic-art, stands on his head each morning, and sings songs to the Bombay pigeons each night. His alter ego resides at www.nakedindianfakir.com.

 

Forgetting by Devashish Makhija

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Category: Short Stories
Publisher: Amaryllis

These twenty-four stories explore individuals trying, variously, to leave their pasts behind. From identical-twin rickshaw drivers wrongly suspected of terrorism in paranoid Mumbai… to a Kolkata merchant who envies each saree he sells for the intimacy it’ll share with the woman who buys it… to an illicit love affair over eight potent sms-es… to an astronaut who sings out loud to no one in particular, hoping his sound-waves will find an ear somewhere… to Orissa adivasis, CRPF jawaans, Naxalites, policemen and journalists caught in a web of violence unleashed on them by both – their own histories, and that of a nation helplessly repeating it.