This novel is based on the real-life story of reclusive poet Binoy Majumdar and well-known film director Ritwik Ghatak who were admitted to the same mental asylum in Kolkata in 1969
When I look back now, I sometimes think we were the happiest and most aromatic on Sundays, when Baba would don a white kurta and pajama, brush his curls, walk around the house in his soft Kolhapuris, managing to somehow look like a young Uttam Kumar with a classical bent of mind.
BY Maitreyee B Chowdhury 10 October 2021
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