Nothing Personal Though… || Shiladitya Roy
- Saayan Sarkar
- Feb 13
- 1 min read
Nothing Personal Though… brings together eight haunting pieces—six stories and two plays—where reality subtly unravels and the ordinary begins to shimmer with unease.
In these pages, memory drifts into myth, rivers withhold forgotten names, and time bends in ways both tender and terrifying.
Bonjour Tristesse opens with a wedding garland that is far more than it seems, pulling a man into an inheritance shadowed by history and sorrow.A Monsoon Ramble transforms rain into a quiet archivist of lost dreams, dissolving the line between presence and absence.A Name Lost in Water follows a man forced to confront a self that a river refuses to give back.
Elsewhere, houses cling to memories that refuse to fade, the dead return not as comfort but as omen, and a forgotten cricketer finds himself chosen by forces beyond understanding.
The dramatic works extend the collection’s unsettling reach.Medea reimagines the ancient myth as a woman who becomes fire itself—fierce, wounded, unforgettable.Willie on the Spot draws Shakespeare into contemporary India, where humour and politics collide with razor-sharp relevance.
Lyrical yet disquieting, this collection dwells in that fragile twilight where the uncanny reveals deeper truths.
📖 Nothing Personal Though…✍️ Shiladitya Roy
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