TRUTH DIGGER: THE BEST OF SHOVON CHOWDHURY

The very best work of the acclaimed humorist Shovon Chowdhury./ The author of the critically acclaimed dystopian novels The Competent Authority and Death with Bengali / Characteristics, Shovon Chowdhury was a writer with a razor-sharp wit whose work blended the bizarre / with the profound. Part-jester, part-rationalist, he employed his terrific sense of humour (often directed / at himself) to put an absurd spin on reality. Besides generous excerpts from his widely praised novels, / in the section entitled 'The Investigator' the book presents a selection from his longest-running column / with the tagline 'We dig for the truth. So you don't have to'; 'We the People' is a series of reactions to the / increasingly bewildering political world; 'The 4-Minute Manager(TM)' aims to make a management guru / out of everyone; 'Ask Uncle' carries advice from your friendly neighbourhood uncle; 'What If' presents / alternate histories from the Chinese capturing Assam to Madhuri never performing 'Ek, Do, Teen' and / more; also included are poetry and the previously unpublished piece, 'I Lost My Trousers in Tiljala'./ Wildly funny, thought-provoking, and thoroughly entertaining, Truth Digger pays tribute to one of our / finest comic writers./