From Neka Museum, pakdokter rushed down to the Left Bank Lounge to catch Indian author, Kunal Basu, discuss his book, the Japanese Wife. Pakdokter had seen this book at the bookstore in KL but had yet to buy and read it.
Kunal Basu is a man with a strong presence. He spoke so well and his discussion so interesting.
The Japanese wife is the story of a boy, orphaned by the monsoons of Bengal and brought up by his auntie. He went to college in Calcutta to study Mathematics with the ambition to return to his village to teach mathematics. He found a pen-pal in a Japanese girl, wrote to each other every week for years, fell in love and exchanged marriage vows through their letters never once ever setting eyes on each other.
This beautiful love story was made into an award-winning movie by Aparna Sen and a short video-clip of the movie was shown during the session.
Kunal Basu studied engineering at Stanford and did a doctorate in Management at Oxford. He grew up in a home surrounded by books - his late mother was a very successful writer and his father an equally successful publisher in Bengal.
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