Shrutidhora P Mohor

Celebrated author Bappaditya Morena arrives on a

long holiday at quiet and quaint Daman, a sleepy

town on the western coastline of India one summer

many decades ago. He brings with himself the memory

of a dormant but much-alive history of violence,

exodus, exile and suffering, none of which can be

overcome by Mayurakshi Gupta, emerging into her

own as an author out of the shadow of her mentor

Morena. Love is inevitable between them, so is

estrangement and bitterness, social awkwardness and

emotional turbulence, and eventual sublimation and

transcendence of it all.

As literary craft and music fuse to take their love ahead,

Mayurakshi discovers over decades the unlikely ways

in which her mentor’s inspiration can weave magic for

her. In addition to being a personal story of intimacy it

is also a story of the history of the Seromon community

to which Bappaditya belongs. The Last Gift is a story

of intense intimacy, suppressed

sexuality, turbulent memory, and

restless desire, and the eventual

victory of art and creativity over

all else.