3 Review(s)

Pather Panchali, 2008, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, translated from the Bengali by Maddibhatla Suri, 258 pages, Rs. 100/- This is a vivid, moving and authentic portrayal of the life of a Brahmin household seen through the eyes of the two young children of the family, Opu and his elder sister Durga. The author writes of the children and their friends, at home or out at play with a natural realism unmarred by adult condescension. The social environment is all-embracing: work and holidays, religious festivals, daily worship and the grim rites of death.