The Mistake and Other Stories

Rarely does an author come by, whose pen speaks a regional tongue, but his language remains universal. Not very often does one read a piece of literature set in a distant, far-flung land — amidst people who barely make it to the lower rungs of the society — which tugs at your heart for the pervasive human emotions it touches.

It is Dr. Bhabendra Nath Saikia's keen sense of observation and his ability to raise the mundane to the extraordinary that pull his characters from the rural setting of...