Chhayataru by Samaresh Majumdar [Hardcover]

In newly independent India, Shubha joins as a doctor in a nearly primitive tea garden in North Bengal. Except for her father, no one supported Shubha's decision. The manager of the tea garden, McPherson, wears a felt hat, a khaki half-sleeve shirt, and half-pants, with a thick white mustache under his nose. Within a few days, the girl from Kolkata, Shubha, realizes that the tea garden is a completely unfamiliar world. The impoverished workers suffer from various superstitions, especially the women. Meanwhile, after the country gained independence, everything is rapidly changing. One by one, the tea gardens are being transferred. The workers who were close to the British managers are facing attacks. One day, several men and women are admitted with strange symptoms. What will Shubha do? Will the good-natured Mr. McPherson leave his job and return to his country? The novel 'Chhayataru' vividly portrays a fragment of post-independence time.