BOOK REVIEW
Scarred Earth
A Novel
Bhaswar Mukherjee
(Petals Publishers, Ludhiana, First Edition, August
2023, 273
Pages Rs.350/-)
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Scarred Earth is the third work of Bhaswar Mukherjee who earlier wrote an anthology of short stories, It happens and a non-fiction work on the life of Abdul Karim Telgi, The Counterfeiter. I have been following his interviews ever since I fell for his short stories. He described his methodology as ‘research, conflict & a sledge-hammer ending’. It is the ending which had indelible impact on the mind of the reader so I fairly knew what to expect from his latest contemporary fiction.
