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Adapted from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Nobelprize winning Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, Booro Angla is an allegorical tale about a boy’s adventures in a forest in British-occupied Bengal. Alor Phulki is an adaptation of the play Chantecler written by the French poet Edmond Rostand. It is a satire inspired by the barnyard animals in his home in the south of France. Khirer Putul is a charming fable that draws on the rich oral tradition of ...
Based on the Chittagong Armoury Raid in 1930, a crucial development in the history of colonial Bengal and India’s struggle for independence from the British yoke, the volume presents a narrative on the subject. With twists and hectic activity of nationalists, colonial officials, barristers and spies and double-agents, it presents the event of the raid and developments surrounding it in the form of a story that is derived from personal memoirs, diaries, ...
In 1930, schoolmaster Surya Sen, affectionately known as Master-da, leads sixty-five boys to capture the armoury of Chittagong in erstwhile East Bengal and frees the town for three days. They hope to go down fighting, die a glorious death and set an example for the rest of the country. But destiny has a different plan for them, and the raid is followed by a four-year-long insurgency. Surya Sen is eventually caught and hanged–even though the British admit ...