Book Review: Inga by Poile Sengupta

Poile Sengupta's debut novel Inga is a stroll through the lives of cousins Inga and Rapa, and the everyday oppression they face in their lives, together and apart. Starting from their younger days at the ancestral home in Kerala, to Rapa's marriage and after, the novel takes readers on a thrilling, riveting journey through the journals, stories and epistolary exchanges between the two. There is never a point where you wish you could lay down the book. Such is the dramatic storytelling by Sengupta, who does not sunday-drive her way through, but skillfully involve elements of family drama, childhood innocence, subtle humour, mystery and unrequited love, like a polished storyteller.