The Shandhu Sisters

'Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may....'
What does marriage mean? Jhilmil's frugal married life of 6 years had failed to answer this question terribly. Her life was always dictated by others, whether her parents or her husband, a lost man who lives in his own academic world. Confined within the four walls of a ghostly large mansion in the lesser known street of Kolkata, she struggles to keep her emotions at bay coping up heroically with a loveless marriage and stoic husband. The jasmine tree flowers, the gulmohar tree sheds its bloom, but Jhilmil's life remains the same. Untill he decides to change it.
Enter Harry, a post graduate student in Kolkata University, and love guru, with a terrific knowledge of the essence of Kolkata. Can he patch the unbridgeable gulf between Jhilmil and Soumendu?
Following their unusual tale, another chemistry picks pace at an unfrequented beach in an unfrequented town. A quirky and unhinged biochemist unintentionally intertwines in the life of a local banker. And he soon discovers that they are both related to Jhilmil - she by birth, he by marriage. And in a twist of fate, all these lives are sewn together in a compact mesh.
Combined with these lives are the beauties of the city of joy, the Hooghly Bridge, the Victoria and the majestic ghats of Tilottoma, a silent witness to the story of a defeated woman, and the atypical people who surround her.