Description India awoke to freedom at the stroke of midnight hour on August 15, 1947. It meant a change from the old to the new, but every change, however longingly welcomed, bristles with confrontations, contradictions and conflicts among those in the thick of managing it. Those were the headwinds of freedom which carried the seeds of severe disruption to settled ways at workplaces and established personal and social equations, especially among those at the cutting edge of the transition. Jalpaiguri district in north Bengal was not spared these headwinds. This fictional narrative describing how they buffeted those in charge of administration and business in that remote part of India could as well be a factual account. Because all the characters escaped by a whisker from having their counterparts in real life. In that sense, it holds the mirror to the intensely emotional drama that must have been played out in a similar vein in many other parts of the country as well.
