Arunima Ghosh

As Kanu, the old and loyal man-servant of the family opens the doors to a room, he is in for the shock of his life. What lay in front of him was unmistakably dead, and decaying. Who had died in that house? Was it a murder or an accident?

A small village in North India has no electricity, and the villagers live in darkness. Things take a turn when the villagers procure a gas lamp, but no one knows how to light it. The only person who can light it is Godhan, an outcast who was falsely accused and asked to leave the village.

A Lipan Apache elder fights the Department of Homeland Security's seizure of her ancestral Texas land - a territory recognized by Spain and Mexico centuries ago, vital to her people's cultural survival. Foregrounds the shaping of the Texas landscape by the resistance of the Lipan Apache/Nde', who have lived, and continue to live, on their traditional land despite colonial, imperial, and postcolonial efforts to dispossess them of it. The focal point is the struggle of Dr. Eloisa G. Tamez against the US Department of Homeland Security that implemented eminent domain to seize a portion of her own Lipan Apache ancestral land in El Calaboz Rancheria. This portion of the San Pedro de Carricitos Land Grant of 1786 was granted by the Spanish Crown, which began with Jose de Escandon's entrance into the area in 1745 with the settling of Nuevo Santander. Colonial records exist, which explicitly acknowledge the existence and deeded ownership of Lipan Nde' land in Texas by both Mexico and Spain, before the United States existed as an entity. The unjust seizure of their land by DHS impacts Lipan Apache cultural traditions and their very way of life, since their lives are intrinsically tied to the land and river to which they no longer have access - a clear breach of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to which the United States is a signatory. —Ramon Resendiz

The story begins in 2013. Abby Sen is a young man who loses his seventh job as a television producer. A scientist volunteers to take him back in time while he is searching for another job. Thanks to the scientist, Abby travels 33 years back to 1980. Thereafter, a series of unforeseen incidents and intricacies of relationships make his life as eventful as ever, but flung between the two worlds both in his personal and professional life, Abby represents the predicament of a man caught in the fierce struggle for survival in this modern age.

Dr. Somshankar Roy, a social scientist, engages Swagato and Anwesha to create a mock crisis on the streets. The aim is to observe reactions of people to different forms of crisis happening around them, and to analyse and derive conclusions about human behaviour from them. But all theories and deductions go astray when they come face to face with a real crisis in their own lives and cannot decipher whether the crisis is mock or real.

In a neighborhood, amidst towering high-rises, lies the old house of Mr Bankim Chandra Choudhury. A conservative, retired police sub-inspector, he has managed to keep out everything which threatens to break up his joint family. He is always the against the idea of self-centered flat culture. Newly married younger son of Bonku Babu, Agni misses the opportunity of being close to Payel due to some family crisis or the other. Frustrated, Agni goes to a promoter Pantoosh Dhar for a flat. Eyeing an opportunity, the promoter tries to grab the land but stubborn Bonku Babu opposes the idea. Missing out on the opportunity, the promoter threatens to kill Bonku Babu. In the course of time Bonku starts to feel that his dream of joint family is slowly but steadily crumbling. He fights with his son Agni. What will he do now to save his family? Will he succeed in holding on to his dream of a joint family? What will Agni do now? Will he listen to his father and stay back...or leave his family with his wife Payel ?

A group of young intellectuals and revolutionaries led by the brilliant young Indranath, a villainous party leader are fighting for independence from the colonial system. Ela, the group`s emancipated muse, feminist and teacher revolted first against her mothers orthodoxy, then against her aunt and finally against the larger politics, where she does not hesitate to deploy her physicality. The poet Attindra, Ela`s romantic love, who, like her doubts the cruelty of revolutionary acts sanctioned by Indranath`s ideals.

Surya returns to his birthplace to take revenge on the person who murdered his father. His alliance are five loyal servants of his father, from whom four were convicted wrongfully and served the sentences of 14 years for murdering their master.