# Four women in a bar tell stories in Ladies’ Night 2026-08-08T11:03:40+00:00 | World & Diplomacy | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Frontline reviews Sucheta Dasgupta's debut fiction collection Ladies' Night, where four women gather in a bar and tell stories. The book, priced at Rs 499, explores themes of memory, voice, and forgetting. The women are unnamed, identified by traits like Bubbly, Gaunt, Obnoxious, and the White-Haired Woman. Bengal's landscapes and culture form a fifth character. The collection blends realism, satire, myth, fantasy, and meta-fiction. Ghost stories and a journalistic sequence about a silenced feminist writer underscore the fear of being forgotten. The final story offers a quiet, perfect ending. ## Coverage - frontline.thehindu.com Tags: book review, fiction, Indian literature, Ladies' Night, Sucheta Dasgupta, women's voices Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/four-women-in-a-bar-tell-stories-in-ladies-night/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/four-women-in-a-bar-tell-stories-in-ladies-night/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes.