The Novel With An Off Beat Is Set, Like Most Stories Of Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, In The Red Soil Of Birbhum. On One Level The Theme Is A Clash Between The Old

This Novel Is Based Mainly On The Encounters Of A South African Born Indian Girl, Who Visits India And Is Treated To A Chain Of Ordeals Which Impair Her Vistas

Presents the Indian literatures, not in isolation in one another, but as related components in a larger complex, conspicuous by the existence of age-old multili