Nilanjan P. Choudhury spent several years peddling highly overrated software to gullible corporates, until a mid-life crisis saw him joining an NGO that works in education. He studied at IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Kanpur and often wonders why he went through all that jazz. He lives in Bangalore with his wife, a daughter and a home loan.
<p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A brilliant satire on modern India; Nilanjan Choudhury mixes fact and fiction with the skill of a master storyteller<u></u><u></u></p><div><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-top: 2pt;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 29, 30);">Guilty of the crime of sleeping on the job, the lowly yaksha Prem Chandra Guha, is banished to India on a punishment posting. During his stay here, he must write a sufficiently riveting history of the land of his exile. Prem Chandra arrives in India on the first dawn of her independence and fate brings him to Netarhat, an obscure town near the forests of Chhota Nagpur. It is here that he meets Manhoos, an orphaned urchin who repairs motor vehicles for a living, and his friend Mary, a feisty tribal girl from the nearby Santhal village.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Perpetua Std", serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: rgb(33, 29, 30);">Song of the Golden Sparrow </span></i><span style="color: rgb(33, 29, 30);">is the story of Manhoos and Mary, and mirrored in their tumultuous lives, is the history of free India from 1947 to 2022.</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><span style="color: rgb(33, 29, 30);"><br></span></div>
