Pradip Ghosh
The story is set in a small university campus, where Virendra Chauhan--a research scientist--and his students are trying to set right a key instrument which has failed to function since its arrival. Although the faulty machine and the attempts to make it work form the core of the narrative, it expands into an allegory of the human spirit--its sorrows and joys, strife and peace, its unending quest--rooted in contemporary social reality. All the events in the story ...