বিদুর

by Mihir Sengupta

An essay in Bengali in the form of a soliloquy, imagined from the point of view of Vidur, one of the greatest luminaries of the Mahabharata. This work by Mihir Sengupta presents the events of the Mahabharata in a particularly modern light and the construct of the Aryan society, events leading to the war of Kurukshetra, and its devastating consequences is critically inspected, in this novel of extraordinary verbose language.

223 pages, Hardcover

About the author

Mihir Sengupta is an Indian writer of Bengali origin, best known for his 2005 autobiography Bishaad Brikkho (Tree of Sorrow). It describes the 1947 partition as seen by the author, who was uprooted from his native Barisal in present-day Bangladesh and ended up in Calcutta as a refugee. Bishaad Brikkho is regarded as an important literary document of the 1947 partition and won the Ananda Puroshkar literary prize. His current residence is in the West Bengal state of India.