{"product_id":"9789386582744","title":"An Elsewhere Place: Boyhood Days in Hazaribagh","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the early 1950s to the early ’60s, Malay Kumar Roy spent around ten years as a young boy in Hazaribagh in the Chhotanagpur district of Jharkhand, which was then a part of Bihar. In \u003cem\u003eAn Elsewhere Place\u003c\/em\u003e, Roy reminisces about his life there—a place that ‘touches a boy forever’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this memoir, he vividly describes Hazaribagh’s tranquil landscape, its changing seasons and its unhurried pace of life. We get a glimpse of a time gone by from Roy’s stories about sharing a crate of mangoes with the last Englishman living in Hazaribagh; a little bear cub tipsy on mahua flowers; a gravely injured fox cub that was nursed back to health by him and his family, and a visitor from Calcutta who boasted about his detective skills and courage but lost steam upon seeing a dangerous criminal. And he revisits his schooldays at St Xavier’s School where his Jesuit mentors taught him the value of curiosity and discipline in life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in charming, spare prose, this collection evokes a gentle, easy-going time when man and nature existed in harmony; a time of friendships, wonder and grace.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175321747696,"sku":"9789386582744","price":5.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789386582744_p0.jpg?v=1763676240","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789386582744","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}