THE BOOK
Nishikant leads a quiet life, going for long walks around Pune with
his older sister, fantasizing about the handsome next-door neighbor
and lingering in bookstores while dreaming of being a writer. But
when a love affair claims his sister’s life and takes the handsome
neighbour far away from him, his middle-class parents pack him off
to Mumbai to shield him from the scandal. Through his
relationships with Shiv in Mumbai, and later with Sreenivas, in
London, Nishikant is able to break apart the shackles his past have
placed on him. When Nishikant moves back to Mumbai, he has
become a writer and a professor and the only escape from his
solitary existence are the long letters he receives from Srinivas , until
one day, Sreenivas disappears mysteriously.
Silk Route translated from the Marathi Reshim Marg, invites
readers to go on a journey along with Nishikant on his many travels
through cities and people in a way that has rarely been seen in
Indian literature. As the series' first part, the novel lays the
groundwork for this expansive narrative journey that questions
love, identity and the false veneer of societal expectations.

 

THE AUTHOR
Sachin Kundalkar is National Award-winning film maker with
twelve Indian feature films to his credit, a screen writer whose work
has been adapted into multiple Indian languages including Hindi
and Malayalam. He is the author of the celebrated novel ‘Cobalt
Blue’ which he wrote in Marathi when he was twenty-three years
old. The novel by now has been translated into English, Hindi,
Kannada, and Sinhala and has been adapted into a visually
stunning feature film.