Palash Krishna Mehrotra writes about prostitutes; cross dressers; murderers; drug addicts; students and stalkers; portraying their perversions and vulnerabilities with equal insight; taking us deep into the dark and seamy soul of India. Set in the murky underbelly of big cities and small towns; slums and dotcoms; college hostels and rented rooms; Eunuch Park: Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruction is a collection like no other. Gritty; grim and depraved; these are candid vignettes of an India most of us are afraid to acknowledge.
Palash Krishna Mehrotra
Palash Krishna Mehrotra was born in Bombay in 1975. He was educated at St Stephen’s College, Delhi, where he did his BA in philosophy and won the Radhakrishnan Scholarship to read for a PPE at Balliol College, Oxford. His debut collection of stories, Eunuch Park: Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruction, was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Hindu Fiction Prize in 2009. His first book of non-fiction, The Butterfly Generation: A Personal Journey into the Passions and Follies of India’s Technicolour Youth, was a finalist for the Crossword Book Award 2013. He is also the editor of an anthology, Recess: The Penguin Book of Schooldays. He was Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone India and writes a fortnightly column for Mail Today Sunday, DailyO and Daily Mail Online. He lives in New Delhi and Dehradun.
Palash Krishna Mehrotra
Penguin India