Halde Pakhir Palak by Leela Majumdar [Hardcover]

An absolute recommendation to everyone who believes in magic, hope and light and obviously the little miracles we all aspired for and dreamt of in our childhoods. The story is woven around a simple household and two siblings (Bogu and Rumu, with their caretaker Jhogru) who are not very different than a common household and it reminds me so dearly of my own childhood. The empty afternoons on summer vacation when the elders wanted us, the children to sleep and we wanted to set a journey to a magical world of pain, cure and heal with a newly found homeopathy book and a wooden box holding innumerable potions that could enable us with superpowers as easily as a magical quill of a rare bird can turn a dog or a fox into a real human being. The story tells of the sorrow that is ingrained in human life and yet, seeds a ray of hope deep down so that life just makes sense!