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1-Minute read: Maya and the half-blood prince
Updated On: 09 April, 2022 12:09 PM IST | Mumbai | Sukanya Datta
An awkward 30-something, Maya has been a desk editor with a daily for a decade, occasionally contributing as a city writer, thanks to her fascination with Mumbai’s cultural and architectural heritage
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Pronoti Datta. Pic courtesy/Anuj Rao
Industrialists, philanthropists, scientists, literary giants, doctors and typical do-gooders crowd one’s imagination while thinking of the Parsi community. If you’re a foodie like this writer, patra ni machhi, gajar mewa nu achaar, berry pulao and mutton dhansak also flavour these musings. But how often do you hear of Parsi cheats, killers and crooks, or for all their obsession with being pure-race Persians, a fifty-fifty Parsi?
The Bombay-inspired jacket aside — collage of a kaali-peeli, a vintage watch, Grand Hotel and Hamilton Studios in Ballard Estate, a peeping sepia-toned photograph and a raggedy letter — what led us to pick up writer Pronoti Datta’s debut novel, Half-Blood, was the convincing description of Burjor Elavia, an “adhkachru” or a fifty-fifty bawa, on the back. It’s Elavia’s life that the protagonist and his daughter Maya, who he had given up for adoption, traces in this witty, dramatic title.
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