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The Ekkos Clan


The Ekkos Clan (ISBN , 978-14-95229-78-7) written by debutante author Sudipto Das, is a contemporary "mystery novel, but is grounded in a substantial base of research and exploration into our past." "The book is [...] a journey of discovery, through soul, through life." It was published by Niyogi Books and released in India in July 2013. It was officially launched at a function in Bangalore on 3 August 2013.Myths & Truths Behind The Ekkos Clan (ISBN , 978-14-97588-41-7, 978-14-97576-90-2, 978-14-97588-39-4), published in April 2014 as a coffee table book, "is a compilation of historical and linguistic facts and figures which loosely form the background of Sudipto Das’ debut novel, The Ekkos Clan."

In less than a fortnight of its release The Ekkos Clan was at third position in the bestsellers list in Flipkart in the Literature and Fiction category. It was also at third position in the "Top 10 Bestsellers of the Week" at Oxford Bookstore in September 2013.

The Ekkos Clan is the debut novel of Sudipto Das, who holds an engineering degree from IIT Kharagpur. Sudipto, a veteran in the Semiconductor Industry, stays in Bangalore. He is a member of a music band Kohal, which he started in Bangalore in 2007 with his IIT friends. He has been a secretary at the Sarathi Socio Cultural Trust for many years, looking after their cultural initiatives in Bangalore. In September 2014 he recreated Eastern European melodies of the 1940s for the War Musical Schweyk in the Second World War by Bertolt Brecht.

Kubha tells lots of stories to her kids. She has heard these stories from her ancestors. No one really knows where these stories came from. Many years later sometime during the nineties of the last century, long after Kubha died a gruesome death during the partition riots of 1947, her grandson Kratu, who is doing his masters at Stanford University, and his girlfriend Afsar, who studies linguistic palaeontology, figure out that the stories are not mere bedtime tales. They discover that each story is rich in linguistic fossils and is actually in the form of a riddle which has clues to some explosive aspects of ancient Indian history not well known. They also come to know that all the unnatural deaths that have happened in their family over the past hundred years were all murders. Some fanatic group wants to eliminate the entire family of Kratu’s to remove all traces of Kubha’s stories, which if exposed will change the way the fanatics want the Indian history to be seen as. Kratu, Afsar and their friend Tista embark on a journey across continents to decipher Kubha’s stories. While doing so, they also discover Kubha in a new light. They come to know of several things about Kubha’s life which no one in Kratu’s family knew till now.


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