about the book
Four futures. Four hard truths. And the fragile choices that still make us human.
This collection brings together four near-future stories rooted in hard trends already reshaping our world — climate instability, algorithmic influence on cognition, the commodification of memory, and the institutionalization of ageing. Rather than imagining distant ‘science fiction’ dystopias, these stories unfold in futures that feel unsettlingly familiar, where technology and systems advance quietly while human relationships strain, adapt, and sometimes resist.
Also by Shakti Ghosal
The Chronicler of the Hooghly and other stories
Four stories. Five crucible experiences. Emotionally gripping, historical and psychological page-turner. Now also available in Bengali.
Stories help us make sense of our realities. Ghosal admits that intense and traumatic events in life have contributed to the creation of these stories. Part-memoir, part-historical, Ghosal paints the stories with strokes of personal experiences and from chapters of India’s long history, selecting those that converse about Kolkata. This tapestry makes the readers more aware of the nuances of history and vividly recreates these scenes in the imagined reality. Ghosal impressively weaves history and imagination to blend fiction and reality, thereby providing a voice of the unrecorded, the myths and legends around what happened on the other side of known history during the colonial period in pre-independent India or at present.
Kaler Prohori O Onaino Golpo
The Bengali edition of The Chronicler of the Hooghly — available on Amazon and Flipkart.
