Research Catalog

Title

Chhotu : a tale of partition and love / Varud Gupta, [illustration] Ayushi Rastogi.

Author

Gupta, Varud

Publication

Gurgaon : Ebury Press, Penguin Random House India, 2019.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rastogi, Ayushi

Description

166 pages : illustrations (black and white); 22 cm

Summary

The year is 1947. The British are slowly marking their departure from the country. And while Partition looms large over India, Chhotu, a student-cum-paranthe-cook in the dusty gullies of Chandni Chowk, has other things on his mind-like feeling the first flushes of love of his crush, Heer, the new girl at school. When he finally decides to make a move, Chhotu soon finds the town's aloo has suddenly gone missing, reluctantly embroiling himself into the world of corruption, crime and dons. As he struggles to understand what freedom truly means, Chhotu realizes one thing is for certain-that his world, and the world of those around him, is about to change forever. Set against the backdrop of Partition and the horrors that followed, Chhotu is a coming-of-age story of an unlikely hero and a parable of a past that doesn't feel too removed from the present.

Subject

• 1947
• India > History > Partition, 1947 > Comic books, strips, etc
• India

Genre/Form

• Graphic novels.
• History.
• Juvenile works.

Call Number

JFD 23-1618

ISBN

• 9780143446149
• 0143446142

LCCN

2020330298

OCLC

1227837198

Author

Gupta, Varud, author.

Title

Chhotu : a tale of partition and love / Varud Gupta, [illustration] Ayushi Rastogi.

Publisher

Gurgaon : Ebury Press, Penguin Random House India, 2019.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1947

Added Author

Rastogi, Ayushi, illustrator.

Research Call Number

JFD 23-1618