Clouds by Chandrahas Choudhury. Pubilshed in 2018 by Simon and Schuster India, 818, Indraprakash Building, 21, Barakambha Road, New Delhi 110001. Pp: 280. Price: Rs 699.
In his second novel, Clouds, Chandrahas Choudhury (pictured on pg 212) seems to have abandoned the traditional novel and has written a novel of ideas, where conversation, intellectual and philosophic debates on occasionally esoteric and philosophic subjects tend to predominate.
There are two strands in the novel. The first revolves around 42-year-old Dr Farhad Billimoria, a divorced psychotherapist, who has decided to abandon Bombay (city of "clods”) and move to San Francisco (city of "clouds”). We......