Harper Collins welcomes you to an evening of a book launch - of "Anchor" by Avik Chanda - in conversation with a discussion with noted journalist Kingshuk Nag.

Avik Chanda’s debut novel 'Anchor' presents a picture of Bengal in the late 1990s, a vast metropolis bustling with life and, serving as its foil, a tiny fictional village more than seventy kilometres away, where villagers risk losing their homes, farm land and finally even their lives.

About the book: "Anchor" is a fictional account of a firebrand ex-Naxal who seems to have gone missing at a critical juncture. A veteran journalist accompanied by a young and naive sub-editor determined to find the truth. A suave but ruthless politician with a hidden agenda, equally determined to stop the truth from getting out.A gang of hardened criminals ready to do his bidding in cohorts with the police.Helpless villagers who are mere pawns in a bigger game.And a group of anxious editors waiting in the claustrophobic newsroom of The Sentinel for the night to pass and the next day's 'anchor' to unfold in the killing fields of a village on the outskirts of Kolkata.Over the course of an unforgettable, stifling, rain-soaked night, the lives of these characters intertwine, clash and are changed inexorably. In Anchor, Avik Chanda presents a picture of Kolkata in the late 1990s, and serving as its foil, a tiny fictional village, where people risk losing their homes, land - and finally, even their lives.

About the author:

Born in Calcutta, Avik Chanda graduated from Presidency College, followed by a master's at the Delhi School of Economics. He pursues a career in consulting but has also moonlighted in the past as a freelance journalist, painter and poet, with two published collections to his name. Presently, Avik resides in Hyderabad with his wife, Shikha.

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