THE BENGAL BOOK (PB)

In the vast sea of available
knowledge on the topic that is ‘Bengal’, this book is a wave navigating its
way through the depths. But the journey, necessarily, is a unique one.  This story of Bengal glimpses into aspects
of the charted routes of known history—political, social, economic,
cultural—but is narrated through the prism of the author’s own experiences.
Familiar grounds are covered but conveyed through fresh perspectives,
interpreted with true insights and infused with new views and voices—those of
a gamut of experts including academics and actors, economists and
environmentalists, sociologists and scholars, politicians and even
psychologists.  In telling and
retelling bits and pieces of the life of Bengal, a plethora of gaps are
plugged—chinks created by time and space—in the story. The author flashes the
torchlight into these shadowy nooks and crannies and ferrets out what
occurred and where it was difficult to assess what did actually go on. This
book, in essence, is a factual, black and white account of selected parts of
the history of Bengal, but splashed with the colour of creative storytelling.