Nataksamagra 5 by Bratya Basu [Hardcover]

"In his heart of hearts, ‘Fyodor’ fully comprehends the ultimate consequences of ‘Matsyanyaya’ (the law of the fish, where the big fish eats the small). He writes, ‘No longer will the sons of the rich or the blue-blooded people be at the center of my writing. It will be this new era and its new people. The defeated, the destroyed.’ Responding to the call of the times, ‘Kolamulo Pala’ takes the stage with the ruined people of the new era. And then, from the 'old trunk', out come ‘Assassin No. 1’, ‘Assassin No. 2’, and ‘Assassin No. 3’. The three proclaim in unison, ‘One era is behind us, another is ahead... Today, forget about tomorrow, today we are here.’

Today’s events lie on the dinner table of tonight. Fate laughs. Humming the song ‘This night is yours and mine’. Opposing characters inwardly think, maybe I exist because you exist, but you are not present in my feelings. In this cosmic flow, each life comes, runs for a while, then gets thrown out. Each piece of time. ‘Roll-Action-Cut’. Bratya Basu’s sharp pen dissects various lives on the post-mortem table of time in these nine plays. This new collection of dramas is compiled together in the fifth volume of the play collection."