Shundar Jeebon

This is the story of a writer who lived in Kolkata. He was married. One day his wife deserted him. Now he is suffering from a writer’s block, unable to write anything. He stays away from the city in an old house in the country, with an elderly woman… a widow. The incessant mating calls of the cuckoo disturbs him. He cannot stand the sweetness of it’s tone. On one such afternoon, an old friend Shanti comes looking for him. Shanti narrates a kind of ideal love that he happened to witness between a young couple whom they knew. The course of this discussion reveals that Shanti has lost his wife just the day before. Shanti did not bother to go and attend her funeral. Is he sad? Sundar Jeebon is the sour taste of beauty.