We've devoured on the tales of Mata Hari to Klaus Fuchs, and when we couldn't get enough of the real ones, we moved to Le Carre's and Forsyth's fiction. Something more closer home was still unexplored, but thanks to Jadavpur University Press and Heritage Walk Calcutta, we're ready to go incognito into the pages of history from the colonial times.
The Jadavpur University Press is set to launch Sajni Mukherji and Sujan Mukherjee's edited book I Spy With my Little Eye this Saturday at Seagull Bookstore. A take on Humphry House's satirical pamphlet of the same name that inquired into the administrative ills that festered colonial Bengal, this book will take you back to Bengal of the 1930s. And while this book promises to reveal how the mole in the crown Michael Carritt and a curios cast of other character like Ilsa the blonde saxophonist went about their spyarchy, there's a walk to actually take you snooping through the pages of history.
Heritage Walk Calcutta in collaboration with Jadavpur University has organised a special walk that will take you through the lanes and shadows of north Kolkata following the trajectory of the the spies and the suspected spies as they waged their own battles against a corrupt regime.