I just finished reading the book 'Calcutta Chromosome' by Amitav Ghosh. This is my second read by this author. This book was written much before he wrote 'The Hungry Tide'.
This book deals about the story of Ronald Ross and his discovery of malaria being caused by anopheles bite. The author tries to link up the discovery of Ross as the contribution from a group of mystic people who prefers to stay silent in their operation and where up to researching a more complicated use of malaria virus in curing diseases like syphilis.
Over all the story is very readable and thrilling, specially the moments where slowly the role of this mystic society were uncovered by the two main protagonist of the story (Murugan and urmila). But at some places the plots where too obnoxious and it became evident that they were set up by force to justify the impression of being coincidental. The role of Antar and Tara as revealed at the end was a sudden shock.
It was nice experience reading this book, but I did not enjoyed it as anyway near I found 'The Hungry Tide'. The next one in the line is 'The Glass Palace". I have already heard good stuff about this one and really looking forward to read it.
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