Author - Shubhobroto Ghosh

A story of a young, absent-minded student’s fantasy about animals, zoos and Gerald Durrell, this novel can be read as a critique of rote learning and other conventions fostered in Indian schools versus educational systems abroad; as a fundamental exploration of the existential problems facing man and animals; and as a young man’s inward journey in search of his own character, mirroring his travels from tradition-bound Indian societies in Kolkata and the North-East to the Western societies represented by Jersey Island and England.