The book, is a bold narrative of the making of ‘East Pakistan’ (now Bangladesh) during the partition of 1947 and a few years before and beyond. It talks of what happened in the lives of the people there, as the power hungry bureaucrats and the politicos of that time were busy having India on their plates, slicing it into pieces and the revolutionaries were fighting for freedom.
The author, a witness to the gory happenings, narrates how in the fall of events, along with many lives, people lost their properties, women lost their self-respect, and children lost their childhood. Hoards of people boarded the ‘train to India’, including the author, to run to the safety of an unknown land with a hope of coming back home ‘as soon as things settle down’; yet little did they know that this journey was to permanently take them away.
While the author gets off his train and slowly settles in the new India, the reader continues being on the train only to be haunted by the bloody incidents noted. A real eye-opener to ‘another’ Bengal.