Balaichand Mukhopadhyay (1899-1979) adopted the pseudonym Banaphool, or wildflower, the name by which he is widely known to the Bengali reading public. A practising physician with a busy medical practice, he still succeeded in turning out an impressively large number of literary works, including novels, short stories, plays, poetry, essays, autobiographical writings and so on. But it was not the mere quantity of his outpourings which made him one of Bengal’s ...
