When this writer turned to serious Bangla literature, especially fictions, he kept himself confined to West Begngal authors. For reasons unknown to even himself, he had still nurtured an aversion for Dhaka-based novelists and short story writers. He was in the last year of his school then. When his reading-circle members were found kept glued to Syed Shamsul Haque's 'Khelaram Khele Ja' or the Masud Rana thriller series, their liking couldn't also be weaned off from the literary giants like Tarashankar, Manik Bandyopadhyay, Bibhutibhushan and the other stalwarts of Bangla fictions.