Ek Thala Bhaat : MyStoryGenie Bengali Audiobook Album 50: The Famished

Written by SAYANTANI PUTATUNDA

Narrated by Ujjyal Chattopadhyay and Agneev

Paran – the native tribes of the jungles surrounding the sprawling tea plantations faces imminent death from starvation and malnutrition. The moribund life represents the atypical face of the tribals, who are subjected to grievous exploitation by the profiteering planters and the wood smugglers operating in these areas in connivance with certain sections within the ruling administrative dispensation. These elements ruthlessly exploit the vulnerabilities of the helpless tribal as dispensable cogs in their illicit business designs. Administering the principle of Heads I win Tales you lose, these criminal nexus forces the tribal to become the fronts in every conceivable crime, often without the latter's knowledge &/or at times compelling them with the lure of peanuts on the face of the rampant poverty and hunger.  

Paran finds himself facing such perilous dead end where he accepts the choice of exterminating an honest forest officer in-lieu-off of a square meal that he has become so desperate of having after scavenging on plant roots and inedible seeds for days. The officer threatens the crime syndicate with strict legal action against all illegal activities. The crime syndicate thus lures Paran into this suicidal mission akin to a sacrificial goat to get the impediment out of their way.

Tune in to this brilliant yet brusque portrayal of an inconvenient truth that plagues human society, especially within the most underdeveloped tribal regions - a must-have in your collection from the "My StoryGenie" Bengali audiobooks series.

• Language: Bengali
• Publisher: ELOQUENT NARRATIVES PVT LTD
• Release date: Oct 21, 2019
• ISBN: 9781094222363