Dasguptas writing is utterly distinctive and fresh so striking that it seemsto come from the future and the past all at once but in marrying a timelessmystery t... » 

Dasguptas writing is utterly distinctive and fresh so striking that it seemsto come from the future and the past all at once but in marrying a timelessmystery to an alert modernity his cautionary tales manage to be reminiscent ofboth Ballard and Borges depicting ordinary extraordinary individuals somelost some confused some happy in a world that remains ineffableinexplicable wonderful. «