Glimpses of Bengal Partition in Atin Bandyopadhyay’s ‘Infidel’ (Kafir) and its relevance to History

The partition of India in 1947 has its strong reaction in the literature of the vernacular. Atin Bandyopadhyay is one of the few Bengali writers to portray the pangs of Partition. In his story Infidel’ (Kafir) he presents the plight of Paran and Hashim. Paran is trying to flee from a Muslim dominated place with the help of his friend Hashim. The effort, though proves to be futile at the end, presents the agony of partition in its varied forms – rootlessness, faith, identity, friendship, human values among other aspects.