Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

"Akhaura is about five or six miles away from Agartala. I had a great desire for a long time to see Agartala, the capital of independent Tripura. At the time I am talking about, there were no motor buses. I traveled from Akhaura to Agartala by horse-drawn carriage and arrived around ten o'clock in the morning."

"The soil was adequately prepared for some of the great bildungsromans of modern India: Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's four-volume Sreekanta, Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyay's Father Panchati and Aparajito..."

"The death in November of the well-beloved novelist, Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyay, in his fifties, leaves a void in the life of Bengal. He was unsurpassed in his portrayal of the countryside...."

"I thought that while Gurudeva Rabindranath was the greatest poet of modem times, Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyaya could rub shoulders with any great novelist the world had known."