Bela-Obela by Raja Bhattacharya [Hardcover]

"The four novellas in this book actually capture two time periods and two parallel worlds. On one side, there's the suburban area of the eighties, still imbued with a deep rural aroma. On the other side, there's the pandemic-stricken present and the frantic, troubled metropolis. The tension and complex construction-deconstruction of these two eras and places form the main narrative thread of this book. How astonishingly fast this world is changing, how yesterday is becoming the distant past with lightning speed—we are hardly noticing it. This book holds the scattered footprints of that breathless journey through time."