turned to the diary of Ashesh Roy [অশেষ রায়], an explorer who had first seen the Ants in 6757. The third narration is by Senor Sabatini [সেনর সাবাতিনি], a famous writer of Rio de Janeiro who describes the third deadly attack. The fourth and final narration is by Sukhomoy Sarkar [সুখময় সরকার], a Bengali who was imprisoned by the Ants and after five years, he somehow escaped. He gives the most comprehensive details of the social and economic organization of them. The description by Sukhomoy Sarkar of the society of Ants is like this: The Ants live in a democracy. The intelligent Ants provide suggestions on science and technology to those Ants who conduct the administration. They are highly advanced compared to humans in knowledge and social structures, and have a strict sense of justice. Mitra concludes this novel with declaration that the whole mankind is united, forgetting their internal enmity, to fight their common enemy. Review As observed by Debjani Sengupta in her essay Sadhanbabu's Friends: Science Fiction in Bengal from 1882-1961: "...Mitra hints at a time when the very existence of humans will be endangered, when common flowers and trees will be a thing of the past." See also Ghanada Bengali science fiction References Children's science fiction novels Indian Bengali-language novels Indian science fiction novels 20th-century Indian novels