Parricide

by Bhaskar Ghose

Childhood, as Ravi remembers it, was a seemingly endless period of pain and abuse suffered at the hands of his father. Now, despite being a twenty-something living in a different city, memories of those days - the rage, the beatings and the hatred - continue to torment him. Until the day he is summoned to his dying father's bedside . . . A story of one man's journey from hatred towards empathy, Parricide is about the choices we make and the price we must pay for even partial resolutions.

280 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2015

About the author

Bhaskar Ghose was educated in Mumbai and Delhi and joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1960, retiring from it after thirty-six years. He served in various capacities both in the government of West Bengal, the state to which he was assigned, and in the Government of India. He has held the posts of Director General, Doordarshan, Secretary, Department of Culture in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, and Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. He has been a visiting fellow of Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. For the last fourteen years he has been a writer and columnist, and has written regularly for a number of major Indian newspapers and journals, among them The Pioneer, Delhi, The Telegraph, Kolkata, and the Hindustan Times, Delhi. He presently writes a column for Frontline. He has been involved with theatre for the last fifty years and has acted in and directed over forty plays. His first book Doordarshan Days was published by Penguin/Viking in 2005.