Prabhat Kumar Mukherji
Translated by Shampa Banerjee
 
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A younger contemporary and protégé of Rabindranath Tagore, Prabhat Kumar Mukherji (1873-1932) is best remembered for his novel, Ratnadeep, and short story, Devi, turned into major Bengali films by Devaki Kumar Bose and Satyajit Ray respectively. The ten stories selected for the present volume represent in a way the range of his interests, especially his profoundly insightful view of Bengali women asserting themselves boldly in the first two decades of the twentieth century, and at times paying the price for it, as in 'The Beloved', in which a young widow in love with a newly married young woman is allowed' to die by a severely reproving in-law. A bunch of four stories are located in London at the turn of the twentieth century, recording transactions between young Bengali students (mainly studying law, like the author himself) and the English middle and lower middle classes, particularly caring landladies and working women!
 
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