HA Barari

A potpourri of the author's distant memories, this book focuses on his early life at his native place Vikrampur in prepartition East Bengal, now Bangladesh. The author showcases the pristine glory of vikrampur, which in more recent times has been the home of many illustrious sons of Bengal. Besides being a deep study of the history and the cultural and spiritual traditions of that place, the book also highlights some of the less known facets of the local sociocultural scene to make sure that these do not get obliterated for ever from our collective memory. The authors disagreement with some of the points made in the nobal laureate Amartya Sen analysis of the Bengal Famine (1943) should attract notice in academic circles.