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Santanu Bhattacharya with Anuja Chauhan: Book discussion of DEVIANTS | 8 February, 5 PM

book discussion

​Join Santanu Bhattacharya and Anuja Chauhan as they discuss DEVIANTS, Santanu's latest book. 
The details of the event are as follows- 

DAY- Saturday
DATE- 8th February 2025
TIME- 5 PM
Please RSVP here since the seating for this event will be limited. 


About the book
Vivaan, a teenager in India’s silicon plateau, has discovered love on his smartphone. Intoxicating, boundary-breaking love. His parents know he is gay, and their support is something Vivaan can count on, but they don’t know what exactly their son gets up to in the online world.

For his uncle, born thirty years earlier, things were very different. Mambro’s life changed forever when he fell for a male classmate at a time, and in a country, where the persecution of gay people was rife under a colonial-era law criminalising homosexuality.

And before that was Mambro’s uncle Sukumar, a young man hopelessly in love with another young man, but forced by social taboos to keep their relationship a secret at all costs. Sukumar would never live the life he yearned for, but his story would ignite and inspire his nephew and grand-nephew after him.

Bold and bracing, intimate and heartbreaking, DEVIANTS examines the histories we inherit and the legacies we leave behind.

About the speakers 
Santanu Bhattacharya grew up in India, and studied at the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore. He won the Desmond Elliott Prize Residency in 2023, and the Mo Siewcharran and Life Writing Prizes in 2021. His first novel, One Small Voice, was an Observer best debut novel of 2023, and was shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and the Society of Authors’ Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize. He now lives in London.

Anuja Chauhan worked in advertising for over seventeen years and is credited with many popular campaigns, including PepsiCo's Nothing Official About It, Yeh Dil Maange More, Mera Number Kab Aayega, Oye Bubbly and Darr ke Aage Jeet Hai. She is the author of six bestselling novels - THE ZOYA FACTOR, BATTLE FOR BITTORA, THOSE PRICEY THAKUR GIRLS, THE HOUSE THAT BJ BUILT, BAAZ and CLUB YOU TO DEATH, the screen rights for all of which have been acquired by major Bombay studios. She lives outside Bangalore in an empty nest with her husband, Niret Alva, with whom she shares three valiantly adulting children and a varying number of dogs and cats.

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