Namaste Montreal

About the Book

This book tells a beautiful story reinforcing the power of love as it defies obstacles such as race, religion, culture and language as faced by an Indo-Canadian man, Dr. Sameer Sen and a French Canadian woman, Ms. Lucy L Lafontain. The story starts in a cold Canadian wintry storm when Sameer saves Lucy, a stranger at the time, from freezing in her stalled vehicle. Interest grows between the two, they work through their cultural differences and with the support of common friends their relationship results in a marriage in India and home in Mississauga. Challenges are faced as Lucy's father does not accept the inter-racial marriage, and plots to break up the marriage and ensure a permanent return of his daughter to Montreal. The book takes the reader through an exciting journey through India, England, Canada, Lucy's father's plotting, Sameer's traumatic accident and many misunderstandings along the way. The ultimate question becomes whether or not Sameer and Lucy can hold true to their love and overcome the many storms to a future of happiness together.

About the Author

Dr. Susil C. Acharyya Born in Bengal, India, the author was schooled mostly in Calcutta. He graduated in electrical engineering from Jadavpur University in Calcutta. He won merit scholarships throughout his academic career. He went to Bombay Tata Hydro as a special trainee, selected by the government of India. After the training, he won the Parkinson Commonwealth Bursary, one such scholarship being awarded each year by an all-India competition to go to England for special technical training. After completing the terms of Bursary, he proceeded to do research, financed by the engineering department, to complete his PhD (doctorate) degree from Manchester University in electrical engineering. In England, he continued reading novels written by various writers. He developed a desire to write fiction. Shortly after, a company brought him from England to Montreal on contract. During this period, he published technical papers in journals and traveled coast to coast in Canada. After the contract period ended, he traveled through Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Europe, and back to Montreal. He settled down with his young family in Montreal and worked in large corporations like RCA, satellite division, moved to Mississauga, worked in AECL, Nortel, and won a number of awards while working in two private companies. He then worked on contracts in a consulting company. Once his two daughters finished university studies, this author retired from working. He started to write an international Indo-Canadian story. He’d always succeeded in any challenges he undertook. His mental disciplines developed by publishing technical articles, his knowledge of people, countries, styles, and how stories are told in novels provided him with the confidence to write this story. He struggled for months to start the story. Finally, he wrote the handwritten full story. He read the draft after a few weeks and found it exciting. While putting it on the computer, he expanded the story and finally produced this story, A Man of Two Countries, as told in this book.