Padma Nadir Majhi

Padma Nadir Majhi is Manik Bandopadhyay’s masterwork about the boatmen and fisherfolk of the Padma river. The novel is grim, beautiful, and unsentimental — Manik wrote about the poor without softening anything, and the result is one of the great novels in any Indian language.

Demanding but unforgettable. Essential reading.