The Sinister Me is a relentlessly surprising sci-fi thriller. Ravi, a manager at 6-Sigma consultancy, had been living a seemingly perfect life with his wife Riya and daughter Rittika. While everything was going well, an uncanny situation gradually emerged in his peaceful life. It was the sudden emergence of a mystery man who seemed to starkly resemble him! As Ravi tried to find out more about him, one day, to his horror, his family got abducted!An entire year passed. No amount of he...

Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influenced generations of writers of Bengali detective fiction. In this anthology of critical essays by scholars on detective fiction, we have divided the contents into three groups. First, there are essays on classic British detective fiction, with essays on Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan...

Popular Cinema in Bengal marks a decisive turn in studies of Bengali language cinema by shifting the focus from auteur and text-based studies to exhaustive readings of the film industry.The book covers a wide range of themes and issues, including: generic tropes (like comedy and action); iconic figurations (of the detective and the city); (female) stars such as Kanan Bala, Sadhana Bose and Aparna Sen; intensities of public debates (subjects of high and low cultures, taste,...