Bari Badle Jay by Ramapada Choudhuri [Hardcover]

Ramapada Chowdhury has been writing one stunning novel after another, starting from 'Kharij'. He has carved out a completely different path in Bengali literature. Each of his novels is a milestone on that path, filled with new surprises. However, these surprises are not created by unusual events or plots. The surprise lies in the fact that no one else can present the inner workings of our minds in such a subtle, precise, and vivid manner as he does. His novels are a perfect reflection of our faces and masks, patches and makeshifts, gaps and deceptions.

In 'Bari Badle Jay', we encounter the same experience. Ramapada Chowdhury has remarkably portrayed the image of middle-class life's dream of owning a piece of property on one hand, and the changing appearance of people who achieve that dream on the other. The characters in this novel are exactly like us—me, you, and many others we know.

Awarded with the Sahitya Akademi Award.