Shirsendur Sera 101 by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay [Hardcover]

For many years, I have travelled around the villages and towns of West Bengal, Assam, North Bengal, Cachar, and Tripura for the work of the Thakur (a term used for God or priest in certain regions). This has not been a leisurely journey. I have travelled by train, bus, van, boat, launch, and, of course, walked miles on foot. I have stayed with simple, mostly uneducated, farming people... Most of them do not understand literature, but that does not diminish the warmth of their hospitality.

Along with the villages and towns, he also became familiar with the world of human life. In the balanced and insightful pen of the literary master Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, the lives of common people of Bengal have been portrayed in a way that perhaps no other contemporary writer has done to the same extent.

A remarkable wave of stories has been effortlessly created, and after reading them, the reader is left in stunned silence, thinking, "I never thought of it this way." The central theme of this procession of countless characters is one - love.

With the firm resolve to become an eternal classic, this anthology is published with 101 stories carefully selected by the esteemed writer Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay himself. It includes rare and previously unpublished stories as well. Without hesitation, this large volume is a valuable record of the evolution of his writing career.