Posts Tagged ‘The Calcutta Chromosome – a short review’

The Calcutta Chromosome

Set mostly in Calcutta and as the caption goes “this is a story of fevers, delirium,…”. No doubt, it is. The story is loosely based on the life of Sir Ronald Ross who discovered the female anopheles mosquito to be the carrier of Malaria.

The story is set in the past, present, and future. At times it is confusing as well. We see different characters in different settings. But each of them represent the a corresponding character in a different timeframe. The main character is Antar who keeps track of some information being loaded into the system. While analysing some (more…)