The Other Queens of Calcutta #27 chattogram / park circus / tiktok breaks the kanoon every day but not to be blamed for teish may #29 ekdalia / gariahat / rashbehari feasts on men and mutton chops from gopal patha’r mangsho shop #13 bow barracks / dalhousie quit phishing at peerless inn to learn mah-jong for stockbroking #18 zie / marxist / probashi does the merengue in hong kong shoes for homeless kids in metiabruz #03 parishad girl for -.. .. -.. .. party-shill on news tv with decibel level = goswami #22 farmer / migrant / leftist jhalmuri mashi from nandigram who knows the truth of chit fund scam #33 markin / yogini / revivalist tomar naam, amar naam; v̶i̶e̶t̶n̶a̶m̶ jai shri ram Sahana Ahmed Sahana Ahmed is a fiction writer and poet from Gurugram, India. She is the author of Combat Skirts (Juggernaut Books, 2018; Quignog, 2018), a novel based in the Calcutta of the nineties. Find her online at www.sahanaahmed.com.
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Shakil
9/29/2020 01:14:33 am
This is simply amazing. Fearlessly political and funny. 👏👏
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Aloka
9/29/2020 04:39:52 am
Reminds me of my entire family! Amazing! Heard the tomar naam phrase after so so long.
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