মলয় রায়চৌধুরীর গল্প উপন্যাস ইত্যাদি

  Malay Roychoudhury, The Cultural Outsider One I was probably born in 1939 and lived my first fourteen years in Imlitala slum with thatched mud houses in narrow lanes without electricity and piped drinking water in any of them,  of Patna town of Bihar state in India, with an extended family of twenty members whom my father had to take care of after my grandfather’s death. I have used the word ‘probably’ because Ma did not ever go to school and Dad learned his alphabet late. Other six brothers of Dad and their wives  did not go to school either. The first member in our dynasty to go to high  school was my elder brother Samir.  The year I was born, in 1939, a month before the birth of World War II, the world was tense, the night was dark. Everyone in the house blamed my birth, the second war and the fear of bombs and the lack of relatives, relatives from Calcutta also came to our house. From then on, uncle Promod used to tie a knot on the four legs of his lungi...