Tag: Corridor

  • Book review: The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers

    (Published in India Today, January 2007)The Barn Owl’s Wondrous CapersSarnath BanerjeePenguin India, Rs 395, 264 pages There were no blogs or graphic novels in Kaliprasanna Singha’s Calcutta, but there were the funky local equivalents of 19th century India. Between 1862 and 1864, Kaliprasanna penned Hutom Penchar Nyaksha or the satirical sketches of “Hutom the Owl”.…