Abirlal Mukhopadhyay

The Cry From The Fire Abirlal Mukhopadhyay

One evening in the forest a boat came with a white man and a big black bag. The man with a black jacket entered the forest with the bag and came back barehanded. Varsha noticed everything from distance. The boat disappeared. But what was there in the bag! A widow of twenty-five, Varsha, lived at the periphery of a little village amidst the forest. And the two white babies lived with her, Wherefrom she got them!Sukla was the elder son of the witch, Raka. After the death of the witch her second son, Sukhdev decided to marry but at the marriage night Varsha mistakenly drank the sanctified water and the marriage got suspended by the priest for next lunar eclipse. An old woman who came to Varsha's cottage also died that night. Villagers suspected her as devilish. The atmosphere became heavy... At midnight Bashu with two other men entered her cottage and after a few hours, they fired the cottage with the widow of twenty-five... Her screaming, the pain of the two children who called Varsha 'mother' made the night darker than others... But who helped the children to escape from the village!