Baptism by Fire: Darjeeling Days, Darjeeling Nights
By Saumya Chaki
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Set in different locales, our new age detective duo crack some complex and nerve-wracking cases. From being called upon to solve the disappearance of a labour leader in the tea gardens near Darjeeling to the mysterious death of a regular hiker in the Table Mountains of Cape Town, or searching for a missing island in the exotic Andaman and Nicobar, to investigating the murder of a management school student – they’ve done it all.
Darjeeling Days, Darjeeling Nights is set in the scintillating Darjeeling where Samrat and Aveek go on a holiday and stay at an uncle’s tea garden estate. They are called in to investigate the sudden disappearance of a labour contractor on pay day.
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Baptism by Fire - Saumya Chaki
2018
Introduction
He has a piercing glance and an elephant’s memory. If you saw him in a public place, he would stand out in a crowd. He was born as Samrat Sanyal. Standing at over six feet, his lean frame made him look taller. We studied Geology in college together (Presidency College, Kolkata) and became good friends. Little did we know what life had in store for us. Samrat was talented and excelled in college at both academics and sports. He was a natural leader, when it came to organising student activities or the annual excursions. What set him apart from an early age, was his voracious reading and keen sense of observation about almost everything around him.
Samrat joined the Central Bureau of Investigation after completing his master’s degree in Geology. I went to study computer applications as my master major. After completing my masters, I joined IT Security Consultants, a security consulting firm and moved to the US.
Ten years later we met at our annual alumni steamer party. We connected and promised to be in touch. In the meantime I moved back to India to work with a small start-up firm in Bangalore. Samrat had also chucked his government job to work with a travel magazine in Kolkata. He was bored of investigating corruption cases in state governments and public sector enterprises. He wanted to be self-employed and a master of his own will. He was toying with the idea of doing part time work as a private investigator. I was bored of my consulting career and wanted to be a full-time writer. I had a passion for writing since college and my career as a consultant left me with little time to write. So we decided to take a month’s break and explore the hills of North Bengal and Sikkim for a month. I know it sounds escapist but that’s what we did that summer in 1999. I had already decided that I would quit my job and write about my experiences in the hills once I was back to Kolkata.
It almost slipped my mind to tell you who I am. My name is Aveek Gupta. I finished my schooling in the Mussorie hills, before moving to Kolkata for my graduation. I love the outdoors and as you already know my passion is to write about the places I visit. I edited my department magazine ‘Bhoo Vidya’ during graduation. Now that we are done with the introductions let me take you on a journey of our adventures in the following years. Little do we know how our friendship and past experiences would define the course of our lives in the coming years. So here is our story that starts in the hot summer month of May 1999.
It was a hot and sultry day in Kolkata. The fan spun overhead with a whirring sound, giving us little relief as we spend the afternoon hours lazing in Samrat’s two-bedroom flat in Salt Lake. We are watching the news on television about how Pakistan backed intruders had captured the heights near the Kargil Dras Highway causing a major embarrassment