Indian Heartstrings, Singapore Serenade (An Autobiography)

About The BookThis Is The Story Of An Unsung Journeyman Of A Journalist Who Grew Up In The Eastern Indian City Of Kolkata, Married His University Classmate And Fell In Love With Singapore When He Went To Work There For A BetterPaying Newspaper, Leaving Behind His Wife And Newborn Son. His Wife Continued Teaching In A College In Kolkata And Taking Care Of Their Son Till The Boy Went To College In America. For Several Years, The Family Of Three Lived In Three Different Countries. Eventually, The Son Got Married While His Parents Were Reunited, Too, And Nobody Was Left Alone. Spanning More Than Six Decades, This RealLife Saga Winds Through Kolkata And Singapore, Fondly Lingering Over Their Newspapers And Newsrooms. Loneliness, Aspirations And The Diaspora, All Feature In This Bittersweet Life Story Of An Ordinary Newsman, Who Accepts Voluntary Retirement, And His Beautiful, Indomitable Wife Suffering From A Mysterious Malady As They Vie For Happiness On The Island Of His Dreams.About The AuthorAbhijit Nag Is A Former Journalist. Born And Raised In Kolkata, He Read English At St XavierS College And Calcutta University. He Began His Newspaper Career At The Statesman In Kolkata During The Emergency In The Mid1970S. Subsequently, After Working For Other Newspapers In Kolkata, He Moved To Singapore And Joined The New Paper When It Was Launched In 1988. After Many Years With The New Paper, Where He Was An Executive Copy Editor And Wrote A Column, He Briefly Worked For Its Sister Publication, The Straits Times, In Singapore. Currently, He And His Wife Divide Their Time Between Singapore And Kolkata. Exploring The SingaporeIndia Connection Since Colonial Times, He Has Edited A Book, Titled Inspirations Of A Nation, About Eminent Singaporeans With Roots In South Asia.