About “Arogya Niketan”
Arogya Niketan is a 1953 Bengali novel by Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay. Set in rural Birbhum, the story follows Jiban Moshay, an aging Ayurvedic healer. His internal struggles and conflicts with a young doctor highlight tensions between tradition and modernity. The novel explores themes of death, obsolescence, and change through Jiban’s self-reflection and his relationship with the younger doctor. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Some summaries adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.