Laya Bilaya - High Tide, Ebb Tide

Author: Gopinath Mohanty
Translator(s)/ Edito: Bikram Keshari Das
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 182
ISBN/UPC (if available): 81260256526

Description

Tarun Roy, a clerk in a British trading company in pre-independence Calcutta, comes with his wife and daughter to Puri for a weekend holiday, hoping to escape briefly the tensions of lower middle class existence.

He dutifully visits the Jagannath temple and the sea-shore, like any ordinary tourist, but finds his life transformed through a variety of mystical experiences, and returns to the city with a new understanding of life.