The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar: Read an exclusive excerpt from the fantasy tale

Part family mystery, part love letter to fantasy, the novella follows a teen in Kolkata as he tries to unwrap his family’s fantastical past.

When I was in school, I was called the snake from nowhere.

What my classmates at St. Lorenzo School for Boys meant was that I didn’t know where I was from. I was Indian, of course—brown and black haired, like them, that went without saying, but it didn’t count. When asked what my family was, I shrugged and said I didn’t know. This was the truth. I didn’t know whether we were Hindu or Muslim or Christian or God Only