Yet as time passes, his new environment casts it spell on him, he begins to understand and value its richness. When he first arrives, however, Satyacharan is a city boy, and the culture shock he experiences is severe. With time to read a fifth novel for #seagullbooksfortnight, I chose Aranyak for two reasons: firstly to take me to India to the home of Seagull Books secondly, as I am currently spending many a lockdown hour wandering through the woods in my local nature reserve, the story of Satyacharan who moves from Calcutta to manage vast swathes of the majestic jungle in Northern Bihar seemed like complementary reading.Įxcept that the verb “manage” in this case means lease for deforestation and agrarian development. Translated from Bengali by Rimli Bhattacharya
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