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. 

Sanjibani Sudha by Sanjeeb Chattopadhay In life, the viewpoint differs in as many ways perhaps, as they are people, and also people that have been there. In this entire permutation and combination of views, there always needs to be a 'break'; break from a conventional outlook into something which is more real, critical, has the right filling of humor and sarcasm, or even some moral science in some cases. This is exactly what Sanjeeb Chattopadhay's Bengali masterpiece 'Sanjibani Sudha' does, and does it in the way characteristic of the writer. The fine art of writing about something, making it tangible, entertaining in the right bits, criticizing it without including toxicity in narration, is the work of a seasoned writer, and Sanjeeb babu does it perfectly.