Panty by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay My rating: 5 of 5 stars This slight novel contains two stories within it's 122 pages. The first is the main story Panty and is about a woment with no name, friends, family to mention of arriving and living in a new city in a flat owned by a man we don't know whilst she is awaiting an operation. The book is based in Kolcata, India and at times as you are absorbed into the poetic prose, you can feel the heat emanating from the page. The chapters are composed in a unique style out of sequence which give us moments of viseral beauty, tenderness and sexual individuality. In equal measure this small story had not only the depth and power to absorb you, it could also leave you feeling disarmed and disorientated. Ultimately this book deals with a number of interesting questions being dealt with by Bengali and Indian women at the current time around feminism, ownership of their sexuality, there religion and there place ...
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