Bhudeb Roy's Life Of Pasteur

After a day of the airport episode, he gets a job offer in a school from a fat man Bhudeb Roy who starts a school in remote a village Lalpukur, about one hundred miles north of Calcutta. Balram turns out to be one of his most important teachers. Bhudeb Roy employs thugs to implement his policies at the school and in the village thus becomes a famous political figure in Lalpukur. Money and politics are the passions of Bhudeb roy. After sixteen years in 1967, Balram starts thinking that he is influenced by Bhudeb Roy and feels himself to be under Bhudeb Roy’s thumb. Bhudeb Roy considers Balram as the greatest barrier in the course of his growth financially as well as politically. The two men become arch rivals and battle to win the appreciation

She takes Balram’s books out, sprinkles kerosene and sets them ablaze. Alu, however, triumphs to save one book; Vallery Radot’s Life of Pasteur and gives it to Balram who considers it as a sacred scripture. Now when all their possessions are burnt by Bhudeb Roy, Toru-debi goes mad. Roy’s ego is not satisfied yet. He discovers that Shombhu Debnath’s son Rakhal stores crude home-produced bombs in Balram’s house and sells them to the extremists. Taking this opportunity, Bhudeb Roy calls Inspector Jyoti Das and the police to raid Balram’s house blaming them to be the extremists. They attack his compound and send flare as a warning. But it falls on the house stored with bombs and carbolic acid shrinking the house to smithereens. The explosion takes the lives of Balram, Toru-debi, May and Rakhal.
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Now branded as an extremist, Alu is compelled to leave Lalpukur village. He is dogged relentlessly by the bird-loving Assitant Superintendent of Police, Jyoti Das forcing him to migrate to Calcutta, then to Northern India, to West Asia and ultimately to North Africa. Jyoti Das is an impressive man. Ghosh describes him as:
“He is clean shaven and pride himself on it for it distinguishes him from his colleagues and who tend generally to be aggressively moustached. He is pleasant if not good looking and he looks younger than his twenty five years; he is often mistaken for a college student.”