Sen's Bucket

The cover of All Roads Lead to Ganga As life goes on the metros, with its own sort of breakneck speed, there is always a need to have a reminder of how nature itself and smaller towns still represent a lot of what we miss today. Ruskin Bond's All Roads Lead to Ganga, does that with his absolute signature style with lucidity, simplicity, and a generous backing of well researched information. Bond's relationship with the smaller towns of North India are already well known, and a lot of his literature revolves around the life in these locations; he does the same thing, with new flavors and an overall interesting read. 

Adarsha Hindu Hotel by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhay There was once a time, when eating at eateries was very different from today; the codes of service and management were strongly different from current dispensation. This holds true for the characters too, even though racism was also more clearly present in everyday life. Politics at work place existed even then; mismanagement and employee favoritism was known. Humane people were perhaps more common. These are some of the overarches that comes strongly when delving into the world of Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhay's Adarsha Hindu Hotel, set in the city of Ranaghat in pre-partition Bengal. The book is obviously about more things, but these remain some of the broader underlings of this Bengali novel.