New stories on partition and aftermath in Bengal, by a leading writer. includes critical intro. by translator. Prafulla Roy was born in 1934 in a village in Dhaka district in what is now Bangledesh. He was still a boy at the time of the Partition of India, and the calamitous events of those days made an indelible impression on him. The stories in this volume dealing with the Partition of India and its continuing aftermath cover the whole of Prafulla Roy's creative life so far, including his first story