About the Book: Jami, who was smuggled into India from Bangladesh, grows up on Zakaria Street in “Little Baghdad”, Kolkata. Dreaming of becoming a true Kalkatta-wallah, he drifts between school, gangs, passport forgers and a massage parlour that leads into darker territory. When he meets Pablo, a boy with leukemia and his single mother, his world splits into the refugee family, the gang neighbourhood, the city’s high society — and eventually into something stranger. Jami becomes Kalkatta-wallah, yet strangers to himself, until love-for Pablo threatens all he has built in Kolkata.