About the Book: Barbed Wire Fence
BarbedWire Fence: #Stories of Displacement from the BarakValleyof Assam is a
collection of seventeen short stories that expressthe myriad facets of the
immigrant experience of people frompresent-day Bangladesh who were forced to
leave their native landduring and after Indias independence and settle, amongst
otherplaces, in the Barak valley of Assam. Some stories explore theanguished
sorrow of alienation while others speak of the turmoil offractured identities.
The stories lend a voice to those Bengalisfor whom the painful memory of their
beloved homeland is furtherexacerbated by the fact that they are unwanted in
Assam. They tryto capture the terrifying essence of the brutal