Nothing Personal Though… by Shiladitya Roy [Paperback]

Nothing Personal Though… is a collection of eight haunting works—six stories and two plays—where the familiar world loosens its seams. Memory slips into myth, rivers guard forgotten names, and time folds like a letter never meant to be read.

Bonjour Tristesse begins with a wedding garland that reveals itself as an ancient migrant of empire, drawing a man into an inheritance of sorrow. In A Monsoon Ramble, rain becomes the keeper of lost dreams, blurring the boundary between the living and the remembered. A Name Lost in Water follows a man confronting the self a river refuses to return.

Other stories explore homes that remember too much, the dead who return as omens, and a forgotten cricketer quietly chosen by destiny.
Medea reimagines the ancient myth as a woman who becomes fire itself, while Willie on the Spot pulls Shakespeare into modern India, where comedy and politics collide.

Lyrical and unsettling, this collection inhabits the twilight where truth reveals itself through the uncanny.