Last Tram To College Street

At twenty, he walked away from Kolkata with a suitcase brimming with ambition and a heart burning for the world. Two decades later, in a sterile Los Angeles hospital, a terminal diagnosis of blood cancer sends him on an unthinkable journey: he comes home to die.
But the city he returns to is more than just a place; it's a living, breathing elegy to the life he chose to abandon. The Last Tram to College Street is the lyrical story of a man's final pilgrimage, a search not for success, but for meaning in the face of his own impermanence. Through a series of profound encounters—from the quiet wisdom of a tea vendor to a bookseller’s lessons on loss, from the cracked heels of a rickshaw puller to the eternal flow of the Hooghly River—he learns to see life, and death, not as a destination, but as a journey.
Blending memory, philosophy, and the vibrant heartbeat of a city that never forgets its own, this novel is a love letter to the place that shaped him and the people who stayed behind. It's an intimate, deeply human story about a man's final days and the truth that sometimes, home is not where you begin, but where you finally return to rest.