A beautiful novel about the native people of Rarh Anchal, how these lived their everyday hardship of life, and laughed and loved at the same time, sumed up as a novel by the author. He dedicated this book to Poet Kalidas Ray, with whome he had spent a long span of time here in the rarh anchal

Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay was an Indian novelist who wrote in the Bengali language. He wrote 65 novels, 53-story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies, 2 travel stories and composed several songs. He was awarded Rabindra Puraskar, Sahitya Akademi Award, Jnanpith Award, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan.