About the Book: Stories from Saratchandra
'Some time ago, a sudden rumour spread across our region that unless three
children were sacrificed, the railway bridge over Roopnarayan just could not be
constructed. Two small boys had already been buried alive under one of the
pillions, and only one more needed to be caught... This book is a collection of
twelve widely acclaimed short stories of Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, one of the
doyens of Bengali literature. Divided into two sections, the first bunch of
stories portray childhood in all its unburdened innocence while the latter
section leads on to deeper sensibilities—the everyday experience of casteism,
the lived reality