The Man Who Tried to Remember

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A well-known figure in Pune, Achyut Athavale is a retired economist of wide-ranging interests and some social standing. He is often invited to give lectures and speak at public events. One such speech results in a riot taking place in the city, leading a troubled Achyut to move into a home for the elderly located near three small villages in rural India named Norway, Sweden and Denmark. There Achyut suffers a temporary loss of memory and murders another inmate of the home. Events take a turn for the bizarre with the media, the Hindi film industry and some international political figures campaigning to assert Achyuts innocence. Bringing together the stylistic elements of the early twentieth-century Marathi novel and the modern European Absurd in this superbly crafted exploration of causality and memory, Makarand Sathe creates a scathing and humorous narrative around the happenings of Achyuts life.

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Makarand Sathe an architect by profession, has been writing plays, novels, articles and films in Marathi for last two decades. His plays have been performed at national and international festivals. Shanta Gokhale is a Mumbai-based Marathi novelist, playwright, translator, bilingual columnist, theatre historian and critic.