No Path in Darjeeling Is Straight: Memories of a Hill Town by Parimal Bhattacharya

No Path in Darjeeling Is Straight: Memories of a Hill Town by Parimal BhattacharyaFor a few years in the early 1990s when the embers of a violent agitation for Gorkhaland were slowly dying down Parimal Bhattacharya taught at the Government College in Darjeeling. No Path in Darjeeling Is Straight is a memoir of his time in the iconic town, and one of the finest works of Indian non fiction in recent years. As Parimal tramped its roads and winding footpaths, Darjeeling slowly grew on him. He sought out its history: a land of

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