PERKS AND PAINS

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About the book

“Perks and Pains” is a story of a young and ambitious, newly married couple Raj and Keya Ganguly, who soon after their marriage flies off from the ‘City of Joy’ – Kolkata, India – to settle in the promising, alluring city of Dubai. In no time, the couple with a free, fervent, inimitable spirit blends the Indian tradition and their erstwhile middle class lifestyle with the plush modernity of the Emirates in one smooth flow. Cutting across all fine and gross socio-economic and politico-religious boundaries, Keya pals up with Farida, her Peshawari colleague and Taslima, her domestic help from Bangladesh. Life starts getting peeled off layer after layer … Taslima, being tired of her consistent contradictions of life goes back for good; economic slump hits the world; Dubai helplessly stares at the economic collapse and scrambles for money; Raj loses his job due to massive downsizing and Raj and Keya’s teenager daughter Tia goes through a deep emotional strife, breaks down, alienates from her parents as the family is forced to return to Kolkata.
But can young Tia recreate a colourful canvas in the twilight of her trauma? Will she fall for a land weirdly welded by her glorious past and contemporary flaws? Will familial love, friends, festivals and frantic travels unite her to the city suffering from acute hypersomnia or will her family fly off to the sheltered sanctuaries of faraway lands once again?

About the Author

Madhuparna Roy has been consistently striving to voice her perceptions on subjects generally considered mundane. A Banaras Hindu University alumnus, Madhuparna, by dint of her profession has been in close touch with diverse nationalities and ethnic groups from across the globe, resulting into her insightful interpretation of the enigmatic bonding of human minds – blending in the melting pot of wide-ranging ways of life.