Fulgulo Soriye Nao - Vol 1 by Samiran Das

"The throat tube has emerged. When swallowing, the tube goes back inside but then immediately comes out and hangs again. The neck bones are as clear as the 'dang' in the childhood game of danguli. The eyes are sunken into their sockets. How horrible it looks! Manik feels resentment towards his own body, this is all due to my excessive drinking. The question arises, is the value of life greater than the value of alcohol? Questions about life, the world, people, and the universe arise. He wrote in his diary, we are bound by the principles of rules. To know the main rule, it is not enough to know with pure intellect, but to know with life. We have continuously known the branches and sub-branches of rules, and we must do so forever. This is called progress. The basis of all religions and ideologies is also this. The mystery of creation. The fundamental principles of the world can never be known to us. That knowledge is infinite and boundless.

'Phoolgulo Shoriye Nao' is not just the chronicle of Manik Bandopadhyay becoming the greatest literary writer; in this novel, the literature, social policies, politics, famine, Hindu-Muslim riots, partition, and Tebhaga movement of that time are intricately portrayed."