Madhab O Tar Pariparshik by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay [Hardcover]

No one bothered to consider the planetary alignment in his birth chart—neither at the moment of his birth nor later on. Who would? He lost his mother in the delivery room. His father was unemployed, indifferent, and eccentric. His estranged aunt suffered from various ailments. Yet, it was that very aunt who gave him a cradle. Even if he found one cradle, before a year passed, he lost another. That second cradle was his birthplace. He was born in East Bengal, in a famous family from Vikrampur, Dhaka district. The partition of the country pulled at the roots of their existence. His grandfather went missing, and his elder uncle went to England. A scheming uncle seized all their possessions.

So what happened next? Through the story of a boy from a once-prosperous family, Shirishendu Mukhopadhyay presents a tale filled with strange twists and turns of family life, while subtly intertwining the pain of the cursed partition. This is not just the narrative of a particular family, but also the story of countless uprooted people, capturing the essence of a specific time in history.