Travails of Love

The book tells a love story between the daughter of a clever villager and the scholarly boy of a deprived widow. The love-locked pair had an obsession to work with their mentor for image makeover of their village through educational development, denied to the village by its influential Zamindar on the pretext of the modern education would spoil village’s age-old social order. As the story progressed, the pair admitted in college where they befriended with a girl who was in exile to pave way for her corrupt father’s promotion. The daughters of rich and powerful families tried to entice the boy, being impressed by his personality and all-round performances, which was thwarted with active cooperation of the exiled girl. The major turning point of the story took place when the clever father of the girl forced her to ignore the boy in view of his social status. The frustrated father joined hand with Zamindar, his bête noire in village politics, to get rid of the boy along with his mother in a midnight fire. But their mentor rescued them. The boy got selected to civil service, came back to village, set up a high school, rescued his love and the villagers from the evil clutches of Zamindar. A fiction of love, romance, tragedy, superstition, humour, comic, exploitation, corruption, nasty politics, and feudocracy.