← Manik BandyopadhyayThe Boatman of the Padmaby Manik BandyopadhyayNovel portraying the lives and struggles of boatmen on the Padma RiverFind on Amazon↗About the authorManik BandyopadhyayBengali novelist and committed Marxist whose fiction examined the lives of the rural poor and lower classes with unflinching realism. The Puppet's Tale and The Boatman of the Padma are his landmark works.More by Manik BandyopadhyayThe Puppet's Tale→Diver→Shajoni Maer Ghat→