lightlessness

With his master strokes, Sengupta offers an all-pervasive analysis of the microcosm, his seemingly nonchalant style being the most powerful weapon to demolish our long-cherished views about human life: the claustrophobic existence in the City of Joy as depicted in "The Bengali Phenomenon"; the suffering of Christ in the time of crucifixion as written in "Expressions"; and the appalling lightlessness when shadows grow longer as portrayed in "Illumination."

Years of lightlessness. Such deprivation makes our people of the

They are described as 'living lives of abject misery', denied 'the simple joys in life that we take for granted, freedom, sunshine, fresh air and exercise', as 'waking up each day, just to suffer', descriptions reinforced with images of overcrowding, confinement, lightlessness and industrial sterility.

lightlessness? (What will be their ratio--this to appease the ward of