A Sin of Colour
A Sin of Colour by Sunetra Gupta, published by Phoenix in 2000, is a novel that explores the complexities of family and memory through the lens of loss and return. The story centers on Debendranath Roy, who is believed to have drowned twenty years ago. As time passes, the lives of those he left behind evolve, with his father deceased and his loved ones adapting to their new realities. Debendranath’s unexpected return prompts a reckoning with his past and the changes that have occurred in his absence.
Readers will find a rich narrative that intertwines the fate of Debendranath with the history of Mandalay, a house in Calcutta that serves as a silent witness to the family’s fortunes and misfortunes. The novel delves into themes of missing persons and the impact of time on relationships, as well as the shifting dynamics within the Roy family. As Debendranath confronts the ghosts of his past upon returning to Mandalay, the story unfolds against a backdrop of historical change, reflecting on the legacies left behind. This edition comprises 217 pages and is presented in English.
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Debendranath Roy, in his mid-thirties, last seen entering a punt on the Cherwell, is believed drowned. Twenty years pass. His father has died, the woman he loved has grown more beautiful, while his English wife has grown reconciled to widowhood. Then Debendranth returns, to explain his actions and ask for help. The real hero of Sunetra Gupta’s new novel is a house in Calcutta. Called Mandalay by its first British owner, it passes into the hands of the wealthy Roy family, and it is to Mandalay that Indranath Roy in the early thirties brings his clever but childlike young bride Reba. The family’s fortunes fluctuate, independence and partition robs them of some of their wealth, but they remain in the house. It is the next generation and Reba’s sons that eventually abandon it to ruin, making their own fortunes away from Calcutta. When Debendranath Roy returns to life it is to the gates of Mandalay, he comes expecting to find it as he left it, but instead he finds ghosts of his past.
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