Written with a visceral candor that is seen in Ashish Avikunthak's films
it includes original writings—memoirs
and re-examines the relevance of the beliefs and rituals that continue to survive in Bengali society
revealing in the process the incredibly gifted and sensitive mind that contributed to the making of one of the major painter-sculptors of our time
that of ritualism and scientific revival
The Tea-Garden Journal Seagull Books Written with a visceral candorFamous for their Darjeeling tea, the tea gardens of Bengal were the birthplace of a workers union movement in the 1930s, while India was under British colonial rule. Protesting oppression by owners and managers, the workers formed unions, organized by the Communist Party of India, which pitted them against the owners and managers, their enforcers, and the constabulary. Despite the powerful opposing forces, the workers union was successfulthanks to