In the Shadow of the Leaves - Softcover
Rohan and his mother are holidaying in the Kumaon Hills. Rohan should be practising Maths because he failed in his exam, but he is spending a lot of time reading Jim Corbett’s Maneaters of Kumaon and wandering in the hills with Manjul, who herds cows. The two have become friends because Rohan admires the way she jumps streams like a little cat and her knowledge of the woods. Into their lives somes a tiger which is apparently killing cattle in the nearby villages.
And then. . . there is a mysterious man with a moustache who materializes at night and seems to be able to talk to both children and tigers. Rohan is convinced that he is Jim Corbett’s ghost. Manjul disagrees. Whoever the mysterious man is, his task is to save the tiger from poachers and herd it back into the National Park.
The result is a story of mystery and magic.
“This story is told in a simple lyrical style, set in a simple, idyllic location. It symbolizes dreams and the spirit of adventure which is locked up inside children and which very often find their eventual release. And slowly, simply, through the nuances a modern fairy tale is crafted.”Rituparno Ghosh, Filmmaker
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About the Author:
Anjana Basu was born in Allahabad and started school in London. She works as an advertising consultant in Kolkata. She has a ‘Book of Short Stories’ published by Orient Longman, India, to her credit. The BBC has broadcast one of her short stories and her poems have featured in anthologies brough out by various publishers. In the US, she has been published in Gowanus,The Blue Moon Review, and Recursive Angel, to name a few. In Canada, she has appeared in The Antigonish Review. The Edinburgh Review and The Saltzburg Review have also featured her work. In 2003, her novel Curses in Ivory was published.
In 2004, she was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in Scotland where she worked on her second novel, Black Tongue which was published in 2007. In February 2010, her children’s novel Chinku and the Wolfboy was published. Her novel Rhythms of Darkness came out in October 2011.
Anjana Basu has also worked on scripts with director Rituparno Ghosh for ‘Antarmahal’ and ‘The Last Lear’ and has subtitled several of his films including ‘Unishe April’, ‘Dahan’ and ‘Chokher Bali’.
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- PublisherThe Energy and Resources Institute, TERI
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 8179935388
- ISBN 13 9788179935385
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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