Mukherjee is nothing less than the ever popular Indian snack ‘Kolkata's Jhalmuri'. Truly, this is such an easy read that one can smoothly travel down to the city of Calcutta in the 80s, loiter around and come back to 2011 with lots of delicious fragrances from the past. The most important offering of the novel is the series of interesting social scenarios portrayed by Mukherjee. Through the lives of Tiger and his friends, Mukherjee picks up and presents insightful snapshots of different classes of society and their interactions. The author’s charming and free flowing language and descriptive style keeps the book continuously colorful, and he manages to paint a beautiful 'Big Picture’ with the help of many small colourful ones between the front and back covers of ‘Chopped Green Chilies in Vanilla Ice-cream.’ In short, a delicious read.
Victor Kalyan Ghoshe is a young Indian writer. An international communication adviser by profession and a musician by heart, Victor Kalyan Ghoshe is an explorer and an award winning Communication designer, whose mission is to rediscover and document the tribal and folk cultures of this world.
Review by Victor Kalyan Ghoshe
ReplyDeleteMukherjee is nothing less than the ever popular Indian snack ‘Kolkata's Jhalmuri'. Truly, this is such an easy read that one can smoothly travel down to the city of Calcutta in the 80s, loiter around and come back to 2011 with lots of delicious fragrances from the past.
The most important offering of the novel is the series of interesting social scenarios portrayed by Mukherjee. Through the lives of Tiger and his friends, Mukherjee picks up and presents insightful snapshots of different classes of society and their interactions. The author’s charming and free flowing language and descriptive style keeps the book continuously colorful, and he manages to paint a beautiful 'Big Picture’ with the help of many small colourful ones between the front and back covers of ‘Chopped Green Chilies in Vanilla Ice-cream.’ In short, a delicious read.
Victor Kalyan Ghoshe is a young Indian writer.
An international communication adviser by profession and a musician by heart, Victor Kalyan Ghoshe is an explorer and an award winning Communication designer, whose mission is to rediscover and document the tribal and folk cultures of this world.