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In a young country charged with national vigour, Charu, the motherless daughter of a railway worker, pines for a life freed of the oppressive domesticity and meagre prospects in her railway township. As India moves from steam to diesel locomotives, through drought and famine, a great strike and state repression, she dares to imagine and demand a different future for herself, boarding a train and fleeing westwards to Bombay. There in the great modern metropolis of alluring opportunity, she seeks the means to live on her own terms. Unfazed by the everyday discriminations around her, Charu is a small hero, a railway woman who keeps her heart open – sometimes guilelessly – to her nation’s vast possibility. Sweeping, elegiac and at times wonderfully comic, Railsong is a powerful portrait of a woman forging a life for herself amid the social and political upheavals of twentiethcentury India

 

 

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Rahul Bhattacharya is an extraordinary writer, and Railsong is a majestic yet profoundly tender novel. Vigorously alive to the currents of national change as well as to the tragedy, daring, humor, and love experienced in one woman's days and years, Railsong bids us to observe the worth and intricacy of one person's journey.
– Megha Majumdar, New York Times bestselling author of A Burning



Rooted in the social history of the seventies to the nineties, when women’s lives were vibrant with change as they started to take their own decisions, the song of Charulata’s life on the railways is a simple but strong, echoing quest for freedom. Rahul Bhattacharya’s prose is so lyrical in tone, and intelligent in wit.
– Volga, Sahitya Akademi Award winning author of The Liberation of Sita

About the Author

Rahul Bhattacharya is the author of the novel The Sly Company of People Who Care, winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Hindu Literary Prize, and Pundits from Pakistan, a Wisden Cricketer top ten cricket book of all time.
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  • ISBN: 9789361313479
  • Author: Rahul Bhattacharya
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Pages: 416
  • Format: Hardback
  • Release Date: 4 November 2025
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In a young country charged with national vigour, Charu, the motherless daughter of a railway worker, pines for a life freed of the oppressive domesticity and meagre prospects in her railway township. As India moves from steam to diesel locomotives, through drought and famine, a great strike and state repression, she dares to imagine and demand a different future for herself, boarding a train and fleeing westwards to Bombay. There in the great modern metropolis of alluring opportunity, she seeks the means to live on her own terms. Unfazed by the everyday discriminations around her, Charu is a small hero, a railway woman who keeps her heart open – sometimes guilelessly – to her nation’s vast possibility. Sweeping, elegiac and at times wonderfully comic, Railsong is a powerful portrait of a woman forging a life for herself amid the social and political upheavals of twentiethcentury India

 

 

Review

Rahul Bhattacharya is an extraordinary writer, and Railsong is a majestic yet profoundly tender novel. Vigorously alive to the currents of national change as well as to the tragedy, daring, humor, and love experienced in one woman's days and years, Railsong bids us to observe the worth and intricacy of one person's journey.
– Megha Majumdar, New York Times bestselling author of A Burning



Rooted in the social history of the seventies to the nineties, when women’s lives were vibrant with change as they started to take their own decisions, the song of Charulata’s life on the railways is a simple but strong, echoing quest for freedom. Rahul Bhattacharya’s prose is so lyrical in tone, and intelligent in wit.
– Volga, Sahitya Akademi Award winning author of The Liberation of Sita

About the Author

Rahul Bhattacharya is the author of the novel The Sly Company of People Who Care, winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Hindu Literary Prize, and Pundits from Pakistan, a Wisden Cricketer top ten cricket book of all time.

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