“The soil was adequately prepared for some of the great bildungsromans of modern India: Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's four-volume Sreekanta, Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyay's Father Panchati and Aparajito…”

—  Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

The First Promise, Ashapurna Debi, 2004

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