Balance Sheet || Written By Debarati Mukhopadhyay  (Hardcover, Bengali, Debarati Mukhopadhyay)

Badanpur is a strange village. There are no tea plantations, no agriculture or industry like the other five common villages of North Bengal. But Badanpur is still different from all other villages. Because, in that village there is the only crematorium in the whole region, where all the people of the surrounding villages come to burn one day or another! Divyadarshini, a bright young woman in her mid-thirties. Her hectic life was shattered like a glass drop when, within hours of giving birth to her first child, the doctor told her that the baby was born with a birth defect, with a life expectancy of just over a week. It's better to let him go in peace without making any unnecessary fuss. With husband Anuran by her side, Divyadarshini presses a stone to her breast and feeds the child, puts her to sleep, and waits for the child's death. Divyadarshini becomes more disoriented after learning about the other relationship of the husband who serves her diligently, parallel to the death of the child. On the one hand, his wife's service, on the other hand, what urge is he involved in another relationship? At a tragic juncture in life, when he was busy with the thought of ending himself, he had to become a manager in Badanpur Bank. Divyadarshini was accommodated in a house near the crematorium after the intervention of the local panchayat chief Pareshbabu, who could not find a house to stay anywhere in the village. Divyadarshini's day begins amidst the musty smell of the crematorium. His ego, his pride, his ego melts into dust while living with the crematorium. He spends his days among the day-to-day people of rural Bengal. In this unknown life, love, dislike, violence, lies, deceit, and deception gradually start to appear in the eyes of the seer.Gradually he realizes, that all is unimportant, that the eternal truth is hidden in the passage as the only human being. In the Upanishad's 'Utishtha Jagrat'. He gradually wants to break his small 'raw self' full of sorrow, suffering and pain and rush towards the 'ripe self'. The 'I' that gradually unites the soul with the Supreme, awakens Chaitanya.A hobbyist dom with a modern banker develops a strangely indifferent relationship that cannot be put into any recognizable equation. Broadly speaking, this novel highlights the disorganization of India's rural banking system. By calculating the balance sheet of rural banking.