Growing up in a land of overwhelming natural beauty and simplicity, a young Bengali boy Keshto leads a carefree childhood till the partition of India in 1947, which leaves him on the other side of the divide. As Keshto grows into a young man, East Pakistan burns in the fires of communal and political violence. He escapes to India in search of brighter vistas but returns soon to become a prosperous businessman and ace bodybuilder, defying communal prejudice. Inadvertently, Keshto gets entrenched in the politics of his country amidst upheavals of his personal life and becomes a dauntless Mukti Bahini fighter, the melange of guerrillas who achieve freedom for their motherland, Bangladesh. Suffering hostility, ignominy and genocide, the proud Bengalis finally defeat the vast and invincible West Pakistan army with India’s help. The epic saga of the rise of a nation, Me, Borishailla vividly re-creates the erstwhile rural and urban East Bengal, spanning the period between 1943 and 1992, during which that plentiful land suffered extreme depredation and agony. Tracing the loss of three million Bengali lives, the novel recounts the tale of horror untold in fiction so far. A deeply moving account of the Bangladeshi freedom struggle, it resonates with nostalgia and grief over the irreplaceable loss of human life despite eventual victory. This is an English translation of the Hindi novel, Main, Borishailla, which received the "Thirteenth International India Sharma Katha Samman 2007" at the House of Lords in London.
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