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Superbly penned stories of struggle and survival, love and frustration, cultural conflicts and pitiable adjustments, family equations and social complications. The range of topics Rochelle Potkar touches upon is remarkable. The absurdities, pathos, and miseries that are part of our life are captured in poignant light. This is a must-read volume. -- Damodar Mauzo

Having made her mark in poetry, Rochelle Potkar has moved with elan into fiction. I admire the way she structures a scene, shade by shade, tile by tile, leaving the reader admiring the story as a piece of finished art. -- Keki Daruwalla

Potkar’s courageous and suave collection takes contemporary Indian writing in English to the inner landscapes of Bombay’s one-room-kitchens, racecourse fortunes and Kamathipura. Her stories are dexterous explorations in tenderness, ambition and sexual abandon. Deceptively straightforward and peppered with wry humour, the stories and their piquant characters come alive against the fascinating canvas of maximum city. --Pervin Saket

These jewels in the guise of stories are adventures in the interior lives of people who not only love and aspire but thrive with the ecstasies of feeling. --William Pei Shih

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Fictionist | Poet | Critic | Curator | Editor | Translator | Screenwriter

Rochelle Potkar is the author of Four Degrees of Separation and Paper Asylum – shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020. Her poetry film

Skirt was showcased on Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland. She is the alumna of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2015) and a Charles Wallace Writer’s fellow, University of Stirling (2017). She has read her poetry in India, Bali, Iowa, Macao, Stirling, Glasgow, Hongkong, Ukraine, Hungary, Bangladesh, and the Gold Coast. Her first feature-length screenplay was a quarter-finalist at the Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition 2020. https://rochellepotkar.com.

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Rochelle Potkar is an alumna of Iowa's International Writing Program (2015) and a Charles Wallace Writer's fellow, University of Stirling (2017). She is the author of Four Degrees of Separation and Paper Asylum - shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020. Her poetry film Skirt showcased on Shonda Rhimes' Shondaland.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08X4DDBJ9
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vishwakarma Publications; 1st edition (February 21, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 21, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1748 KB
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Rochelle Potkar is an alumna of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2015) and a Charles Wallace Writer’s fellow, University of Stirling (2017). She is the author of Four Degrees of Separation and Paper Asylum – shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020. Her poetry film Skirt showcased on Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland. Her poems To Daraza won the 2018 Norton Girault Literary Prize UK, and The girl from Lal Bazaar was shortlisted at the Gregory O’ Donoghue International Poetry Prize, 2018.

As critic, her reviews have appeared in Wasafiri, Sahitya Akademi’s Indian Literature, Asian Cha, and Chandrabhaga. Widely-anthologized, she has read her poetry in India, Bali, Iowa, Macao, Stirling, Glasgow, Hongkong, Ukraine, Hungary, Bangladesh, and the Gold Coast, Australia. Her first screenplay was a semi-finalist at the Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting competition 2020. The short story collection Bombay Hangovers is her latest book.

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A Curious and probing eye!

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2022

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Rochelle has created a beautiful collection that is as impactful and resonant as her haiku writing which I have been a fan of for long! She uses rich language and also uses windows of silence to tell her stories. Bombay becomes a city in the hands of a careful guide in her hands and what is delivered is a collection that stays with us while it skips, hops and jumps through different characters and settings.
Sensory, and sensitive at the same time is how these stories unfold.
Reading, and will be reading often and again

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K. B.

The next great Bombay book

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2021

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A unique collection of stories penned across an extremely diverse range of age groups, genders, and lifestyles, set in Bombay. While the stories are short and feel more like reflections than full worlds, Potkar’s talents with language, melody, and prose are unrivaled. I love the way she makes her characters think through sex. She resuscitates the city of Manto with a feminine sigh. She reimagines Indian dynamics of sexuality, relationship, and identity on completely new terms. A very enjoyable read, for anyone who wants to imagine Bombay but from characters you normally don’t hear from.

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Avani Shah

Brilliant words

Reviewed in India on January 17, 2022

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Bombay Hangover by Rochelle Potkar, a collection of short stories set in the beautiful yet very secretive city of Bombæ. Just like the city itself, we get to see stories from all walks of life, across genders, age & lifestyle.

Rochelle's writing style and work has vaguely been compared to Manto which made me pick up this book itself. She beautifully depicts the unspoken and unsaid sides of a relationship and life between couples and families.

The collection of stories makes us think about so many things in life. It's all about friendship, love, life and so much more through mere acts of intimacy & sex which we could never evenn think of on a regular basis.

I highly recommend you to read this book through a open mind and see the beauty and complexity of life that has been depicted in this book. Amongst others I will definitely be looking forward to reading more books by this author.

Towards the end of the book the stories thus seem a little bit haywire but nonetheless the starting couple of stories like Kamathipura, The Metamorphosis of Joe Pereira, etc. were brilliant.

Akshu Sharma

Interesting book

Reviewed in India on December 7, 2021

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In the book "Bombay hangovers" there are tales of a scuffle, survivance, love and exasperation, cultural disputes and distressing adjustments, family equations and jovial difficulties.The author's tales make life, the happening of Bombay to the uninitiated. The author’s skills with vocabulary, harmony, and prose are unrivalled. Every tale has an interesting opening, goes on drifting with comfort that drapes one up in the creases of the continuous incidents, be it the life of a hooker or a washerwoman, a corporate honcho, or a skilful artist, and then terminates with dignity and feel-good element.The author has treated poetic wording in this book. The link between the personalities and the city is granulated, providing the book its outstanding voice. The characters in the book are all inquisitive, enthusiastic and equivocal, thereby hooking us in. The author has beautifully penned down the story resisting the havoc for the readers. The language is very lucid, stories are interesting, which keeps you glued to the book.The author has done a commendable job for this book.

kamayani

Bombay comes home to Shimla

Reviewed in India on April 29, 2021

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A reader who has lived her life in the mountains and known Bombay only through its narration in literature, films, pictures and news, feels transported to the little crevasses of life in this city. Rochelle's stories bring alive, the experience of Bombay to the uninitiated. The joy of reading these tales lay in the universality of human responses woven into the specificity of location. Loved all the characters for the rawness that makes them intriguingly real. The boldness of themes and the swiftness of idiom that articulates these themes without hesitation are as metropolitan as the city. Unabashed and authentic...that's what these stories are.
Thankyou for bringing the Mahanagari to my sleepy neighborhood, Rochelle!

G.Akila

Universal Bombay

Reviewed in India on May 21, 2021

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A lucid narrative that makes ordinary lives and people extraordinary in this book. Not that they are super men or women or children, for that matter, but because they carry a bit of us in them. Love, dreams, desperation, stress, anxiety, coping, silence, sounds that punctuate a life that has to be lived and therefore, lived. Life runs in the same vein across the strata of age and livelihood, whether as a student, roadside cafe owner, entrepreneur, adman or a top executive; the broad sketch of every man and woman is the same. What makes them interesting is the author's portrayal of these character sketches and their journeys like frames of a movie playing simultaneously. They are there somewhere is what you want to believe and so when you put down a story, you can see them in your head. Simple and yet vivid imagery for each of them and their stories. Bombay truly hangs over us in our homes, cities, our stories and within us.

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Shubha Khandekar

Irreverent, racy, captivating read

Reviewed in India on March 21, 2021

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I have just put down the unputdownable Bombay Hangovers by Rochelle Potkar. Being a reader with a stubborn bias in favour of non-fiction, I wasn’t sure what I could expect from this slim volume. Slim, yes, but packed with painstaking micro-detailing in story after story that was a pleasant surprise. But even more delightful is the seamless way it is integrated with the narrative and the climax. It infuses life and blood into the characters and with each sprinkling of facts and factoids, they slowly start coming alive, springing up from oblivion and sneaking in to grab the reader’s attention.
The author evokes familiarity and sympathy towards these people throbbing with life, in measured steps that are synchronised with the dizzying rhythm of Bombay. As one begins to see not only the world through a different pair of eyes in each story, but also unravel the process by which each of the character tries to make sense of the world, it becomes a journey of surprises, discoveries, revelations. One begins to wish Kailas would have the good fortune of donning at least one of the shirts he dreams of. One goes around sniffing the flowers that go into Russi’s perfumes, wondering where the trail would take us, one desperately hopes Isabelle would find her beloved lost child. Though seeped in the myriad flavours of Mumbai, it makes the characters universal and creates the dramatic effect of having tasted a genuine slice of lives of people one would hardly notice, even if one did come across them in real life. One feels drawn towards these characters in empathy and understanding, wanting to run into them somewhere on Mumbai’s streets and say, “Hey, haven’t we met somewhere?”
A contributor in equal measure to this enlivening process is the detached, dispassionate and pervasive irreverence in Potkar’s writing that lends an extra dimension to the stories. And this realness born of a 3-D videography with a laser-vision is truly captivating as readers of such books are unlikely to have first hand experience of the day-to-day concerns of the residents of Kamathipura or a lowly textile mill worker or a washerwoman at a public dhobhighat.
As a cartoonist I dare say irreverence is difficult to sustain especially in a country like India where people may even take offence to a writer who goes treading on the toes of their supposed ancestors long since dead and gone, for centuries or millennia. Potkar’s incisive irreverence is possibly the source of the compassion she generates towards her multifaceted characters.

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