About the Book :
B.T. Road (B.T. Roader Dharey, 1953) emerged out of Samaresh Basu's own
experiences of urban slum life concentrated around the jute mills of Bengal and
the trade union movement that grew around them. The residents of a nameless slum
next to the Barrackpore Trunk Road are brought to life with his sensitive pen,
not from the perspective of an outsider viewing the grim squalor of the place
but from a deep enquiry into their inner lives.
With The Hollow (Bibar, 1965), a chilling, often grotesque, portrayal of society
and its mores, Basu turned towards a frank dissection of the middle class and
its unashamed