'Saba and her cat named Grey' is the story of Saba, who had shifted to Calcutta, in the monsoon of twenty-sixteen, with a desk job, in a lifestyle magazine. It is a story about her daily struggle with the memories, from her past. The broken marriage. The escape from a government-sponsored pogrom. The pain. The loneliness. The misunderstandings. It is a story about her life in Calcutta. How she falls in love with the city. With its streets, its cafés, its people, their stories, their benevolence, and every other thing that makes the city so special.
The story talks about her experiences with the recipes that she discovers, over time. The emotions that they evoke, inside her. The memories that they help her, revisit. The politics of food. The socio-religious debate, intertwined with it. Of what can be eaten and what cannot be. Of what can be cooked and what is prohibited.
But mostly, the novella explores the connection that she has develops with her feline roommate, Grey.