Synapse : ratan oak stories

By:

Ratna, Kalpish

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Speaking Tiger 2019Description: 203ISBN:

9789388874793

Subject(s):

English Fiction

DDC classification:

RAT K

Summary: What is the chill interface between violence and pseudo-science? What is the secret ingredient of the elixir of youth being doled out by a hakim at Leopold Café? Who was the Bombay Ripper, the notorious serial killer from the late-1800s? How does a fifteen-year-old widow’s sati attempt result in the birth of an icon of the Hindu Rashtra? How much of love is real and how much hallucination when the object of one’s affection is a spectre? In this thrilling mix of medical history and speculative fiction, the intrepid microbiologist Ratan Oak jumps between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, outwitting vedic scientists, brahminical eugenicists, lusty serial-killers and ghostly seductresses.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	RAT K (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		161940

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What is the chill interface between violence and pseudo-science?

What is the secret ingredient of the elixir of youth being doled out by a hakim at Leopold Café?

Who was the Bombay Ripper, the notorious serial killer from the late-1800s?

How does a fifteen-year-old widow’s sati attempt result in the birth of an icon of the Hindu Rashtra?

How much of love is real and how much hallucination when the object of one’s affection is a spectre?

In this thrilling mix of medical history and speculative fiction, the intrepid microbiologist Ratan Oak jumps between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, outwitting vedic scientists, brahminical eugenicists, lusty serial-killers and ghostly seductresses.

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