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<br/>An anthology of short stories that master film-maker Satyajit Ray adapted into films.A rich zamindar has a dream that his daughter-in-law is an incarnation of Kali; a clerk's life turns upside down when he stumbles upon a magical stone which can turn any base metal into gold; a housewife steps out of her lowermiddle-class household into the big city to work as a salesgirl and is awestruck by its labyrinthine ways; blessed with three magical boons from the king of ghosts Goopy and Bagha fight the evil plans of the king of Halla and save the kingdom of Shundi; a group of friends run into a self-proclaimed ageless sage who claims to have been friends with Plato Jesus and Buddha.With short stories from legendary writers like Tagore Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay Rajshekhar Basu and Premchand Fourteen is a beautiful collection of tales Satyajit Ray transformed into films that have endured and become classics we all love and admire.