Pather Panchali
by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
This is my childhood favourite. It is a novel about a boy called Opu growing up in a very poor family. His father is a Hindu priest but he leaves the family to take up a job in very rich Hindu businessman’s house. When Opu’s sister dies the family decide to leave their ancestral village. When I was admitted to university I had to move away from my home and I felt like the boy in this story.
