Adarsha Hindu Hotel by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay [Hardcover]

In the railway market of Ranaghat, Hazari Thakur, a man of forty-five to forty-six years, works as a cook at Bechu Chakravarti’s Hindu Hotel for a monthly salary of seven rupees. He is a skilled cook, and people often praise him for it, but Padma Ji, the maid, cannot tolerate his praise. Even though Bechu Chakravarti is the owner of the hotel, it is Padma Ji who seems to be the real authority there. No one dares to speak against her. Hazari Thakur, enduring her constant scolding and his low wages, dreams of opening his own hotel one day, which he would name "Ideal Hindu Hotel." But fate is not on his side, and one day, he is accused of theft and forced to leave the hotel. Will the dream of this wandering Brahmin ever come true? Where will he find the capital to open a new hotel? To find out, you’ll have to read this novel.