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Two lost souls in a fishbowl
Mint Chennai
|July 26, 2025
Sachin Kundalkar's new novel in translation feels rushed and ragged in its execution
Sachin Kundalkar's new novel in translation, Silk Route, was first published in the original Marathi as Monochrome, Volume 1: Reshim Marg (2023), ostensibly as part of a projected series. Rendered into English recently by Aakash Karkare, it's as slim as the author's earlier work, Cobalt Blue, which was translated by Jerry Pinto in 2013, and inspired a film of the same name in 2022.
Apart from their brevity, the two books share other affinities. Like Tanay, one of two protagonists of Cobalt Blue, Nishikant, who is at the centre of
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