Aranyak

Sent to manage a vast tract of forest land on behalf of an absentee landlord, a young Calcutta clerk arrives expecting a dull posting and finds instead a world that will change him forever. Among the Santal villagers, wandering minstrels, dispossessed royalty, and the last untouched wilderness of Bihar, he watches, with mounting guilt, as the very forest that has enchanted him is cleared and parceled into farmland by his own hand. Bibhutibhushan's elegy for a vanishing wild India is part adventure, part confession, and one of the most lyrical meditations on nature and loss in modern Bengali literature.