Written in 1961, ‘In and Around the Marketplace’ tells the story of Sadashiv, an idealistic doctor, who decides to spend his retirement healing the poor in a small-town in Bihar. But Sadashiv is no ordinary Good Samaritan. Slowly, he comes to be at one with the people he helps. Rejoicing in their happiness and grieving in their sorrow. And on the way, as he goes from market to market, from bazaar to bazaar, seeing to his rustic patients and mixing with them ...
