Dig Boy Dig is a historical eponymous novel about oil exploration, the first commercial success in Asia, and the second in the world. It is a faithful and authentic translation of a best seller Assamese novel by the same name that captures the late 19th-century background of early oil exploration in Digboi, Assam with uncanny accuracy.

The story vividly narrates the discovery of oil serendipitously by elephants, the drilling of the first oil well in 1889, and the famous chanting of "dig boy, dig" by an engineer that encouraged the workers which is now a part of the romance—and the map of India as the town of Digboi as a mondegreen. The setting up of the refinery in 1901 was to revolutionize India economically, strategically, and geopolitically.

Dig Boy Dig narrates some wonderful fictional love stories spread across continents and epochs with the backdrop of those historical events and...