Biral Patar Gaach by Mrinal Satpathy [Hardcover]

"In various jungles, people with steadfast determination and strong spines still live. In the urban jungle, a lone person sometimes crowds as a daily commuter, seeking self-identity, sometimes cyber-crime engulfs citizens' desires under the sheltering canopy of the Greenman. Thus, the vast Junglemahal depicted throughout the book gradually infiltrates familiar cities and villages, in reality or epic tales. Mrinal's writing doesn’t sit to narrate the glory of triumphant processions but instead aims to show the unadorned people standing on the side observing the parade. As philosophers have said, that person is actually searching for someone within the procession who was supposed to return but never did, never returns. Collecting every unsaid drop of tears from those narratives, 'Rare Leaf Tree' is created. The thirteen stories in this book depict people from local identities, from forest life to declining villages to urban sighs. It has reconstructed epics—connecting the timeless history of humans with contemporary times."