Professor Hamilton’s Passage to India

Manisha Roy
Publisher : Yapanchitra Books, Kolkata.
Published : February, 2009
ISBN: 978-81-908260-2-0
Available at amazon.dot.com

"This novel describes the unpredictable turn of events in the life of an American researcher in India and how he has no choice but to surrender to the dual experience and its consequences.

Charles Hamilton, M.D., professor of infectious diseases, receives a substantial research grant to spend a year in India gathering data on parasitic diseases in order to understand their epidemiology better. The year is 1975. His explorations take him to a world of problems and challenges, at the same time wonders and surprises far beyond his medical research. He is rejected by a woman that he finds irresistible, and by his colleagues he wants to help and finally his wife divorces him. In the process he also encounters people and events that teach him something new about life, changing him ever so subtly. He learns to accept a life that is not just based on recognition and fame and is beyond his control.

This is a fresh and unique variation to the observations of E.M. Forster in his Passage to India, by introducing an American doctor into the Indian society of the seventies. His experiences with rural and urban Indians range from hilarious to touching pathos. The unexpected emotional, cultural and political conflicts in his quest turn into a crucible leading a transformation that is subtle yet moving. .." (- from the blurb)

First fiction in English by the author of well-known Bengali Women.

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