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The stories presented here bring to life the face of Bengal as it was at the beginning of the 20th century. In these stories the reader will meet the poverty and the attraction of the quiet countryside-the gentry, the peasants, the women-folk and the boys of a close-knit society. Perhaps he will also share the happiness of the truant boys roaming about the fields in gay abandon in a glorious summer morning in Bengal. Here are some stories involving ghosts and ...
Do you know the Mountain of the Moon? Chander Pahad? The dangers that lurk there, the mystery that shrouds it, the places there you cannot run away from, nor hide in. Find for yourself the magic and mystery of Africa created by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay. For you in English by Santanu Sinha Chaudhuri. With illustrations by Suddhasattwa Basu. A must read for all those who dare to dare, dare to dream. It may be relevant to mention here that the Richtersveldt ...
This book contains seven most entertaining adventures, competently translated. At each reading, one can only marvel at the writer’s genius. Detective fiction has never lacked devoted fans. The undying popularity of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot vouch for that fact. In the early thirties, a detective by the name of Byomkesh Bakshi made an unobtrusive entry into the world of Bengali fiction. He preferred calling himself a satyanneshi, a seeker of truth, and ...
This volume for the first time makes available to the English reading public a selection of Bibhutibhushan’s varied stories. The stories are simply told and most often center around the villages of Bengal that Bibhutibhuhan knew from Childhood. Their main concern is always with the small details and small passions of life; often the larger upheavals of society, the World Wars, the struggle for Independence in India, find but scant mention in Bibhutibhushan’s ...