Panchashti Galpa by Nandita Bagchi [Hardcover]

Most of the stories in this collection were previously published in magazines such as Desh, Anandabazar Patrika, Sananda, Ebela, Nabakallol, and others. However, some of the stories are entirely new. The author has lived in various countries across the world, and as a result, her stories have effortlessly become universal. Whether it's the towering skyscrapers of America, the dust of the Sahara Desert, or the rich soil of the Sundarbans, all of these have found their place at the tip of her pen.

The subjects of her stories are vibrant and diverse. Her character selection includes men, women, children, and the elderly, as well as dogs, trees, flowers, and plants, which seem to take on human qualities in some of the tales in this collection. With a blend of pathos and humor, literature and science, the local and the foreign, politics and corruption, the ancient and the modern, as well as history and geography, the contents of this book have seamlessly merged within its two covers.