India, Feb. 18 -- Amidst the 48th International Kolkata Bookfair 2025's bibliomania, writer-journalist-academic Arindam Basu's thriller, "The Calcutta Covenant," which compiles four novellas that depict fragments of historical timeline in a fictionalized manner, held its own.

While resorting to historical perspective, to make it more believable, the author has created a make-believe world filled with fictional characters for the protagonist Prithviraj Banerjee, where he can exist and roam freely unveiling deeply embedded facts beneath the surface.

Launching the book (published by Penprints India) whetting readers' curiosity amid presence of some well-known Kolkata faces, the writer promised that the reader would remain glued to the fast...