A FACE OF BENGAL

A Face of Bengal : Looking Through the Prism of Basic Education

‘An extraordinary book indeed this is…exposes brilliantly the bleak backdrop of human survival.’ – The Statesman

‘the distance covered is vast and the dramatis personae various. Using real-life stories, the author makes dry-as-dust statistics look interesting.’ – The Telegraph

Basic education, like a prism, refracts a spectrum of economic, political and cultural issues that usually remain knotted. The writer discovered this when he toured West Bengal – from the heart of Sundarbans to Shantiniketan, from the floodplains of dying rivers to the ochre plains of Jangalmahal. What emerges is a tapestry of sights, sounds and smells that often speak more than cold statistics.