Jayanta Bora launches The Lyndohh Chronicles: The Dkhar

Jayanta Bora’s new novel, published May 28, 2026, opens a trilogy about memory, identity, and belonging through the story of Lyndohh, a man pulled back to Shillong by a recurring number and a lottery win. The book uses the word “Dkhar” to explore outsiderhood, return, and the long reach of childhood wounds. Why it matters: - The Dkhar frames outsiderhood as a lived identity issue, not just a plot device, and ties that theme to place, language, and memory. - The novel launches The Lyndohh Chronicles, a trilogy that expands the story beyond Shillong and into questions of exile, belonging, and self-understanding. - The book is aimed at readers drawn to coming-of-age fiction, cultural memory, and emotionally layered novels about return. What happened: - Jayanta Bora published THE LYNDOHH CHRONICLES: THE DKHAR on 28 May 2026. - The novel opens in Southsea, where Lyndohh lives with Inya near the sea. - A recurring sequence, 10766, reappears across Lyndohh’s life and becomes linked to a £28 million UK Lotto win. - The lottery win gives Lyndohh the means to return to Shillong and to the house at Barik. - The book is available on Amazon. The details: - In Khasi, “Dkhar” can mean outsider, stranger, settler, or someone who is simply “not us.” - Bora turns that word into a central emotional burden for Lyndohh, shaping his search for clarity and home. - The house at Barik anchors the story as a place of childhood, ancestry, loss, and family memory. - Lyndohh seeks to lease and restore the house for 99 years, treating preservation as part of his return. - Shillong is presented through mist, pine, rain, tea shops, school corridors, markets, old radios, church echoes, curfews, and social change. - Places including Barik, St Edmund’s, Tripura Castle, Iewduh, Laitumkhrah, Motphran, and Wards Lake function as emotional landmarks. - The novel follows Lyndohh through school life, friendships, family tensions, first desires, humour, shame, discipline, rebellion, and confusion. - The chapter “Colour Purple” explores youthful indulgence, dependency, escape, and the search for belonging through sensation. Between the lines: - The lottery win matters less as a wealth event than as a narrative trigger that forces Lyndohh back into the past. - Bora uses memory as structure, so the story moves by association rather than straight chronology. - The novel treats outsider status as something accumulated through language, class, accent, culture, and inheritance. - Shillong functions as a character in its own right, shaping Lyndohh even after he leaves. - The trilogy’s wider arc points toward Bombay, the United States, and Kazakhstan, suggesting that outsiderhood follows Lyndohh well beyond his hometown. What’s next: - The Lyndohh Chronicles will continue beyond The Dkhar with later volumes that extend Lyndohh’s story into new locations and stages of life. - Bora’s broader narrative is set to keep exploring how identity changes when a person leaves home, returns, and leaves again. - Readers can expect the trilogy to deepen the themes of exile, memory, and becoming as the story moves forward. The bottom line: - The Dkhar is a return story, but not a simple homecoming. It asks how much of a person remains shaped by the word used to exclude them, and what it takes to claim belonging after years of distance.