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{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --><br />
| name = Balanak Bonihar O Pallavi<br />
| title_orig = <br />
| translator = <br />
| image = Balaanak Bonihar o Pallavi.JPG <!--prefer 1st edition--><br />
| caption = First Edition<br />
| author = [[Binod Bihari Verma]]<br />
| illustrator = <br />
| cover_artist = Varuna Verma<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| language = [[Maithili language|Maithili]]<br />
| series = <br />
| genre = [[Short story collection]]<br />
| publisher = [[Binod Bihari Verma]]<br />
| release_date = 1994<br />
| media_type = Print (paperback)<br />
| pages = 105 pp<br />
| oclc = 33161229<br />
| isbn = 81-905911-1-8<br />
| preceded_by = [[Maithili Karna Kayasthak Panjik Sarvekshan]] a Survey of the [[Panjis]] of the Karan Kayasthas of [[Mithila (India)|Mithila]]<br />
| followed_by = [[Tapasa vai Ganga]] Biography of renowned historian Prof. [[Radha Krishna Choudhary]].(1995)<br />
}}<br />
'''''Balanak Bonihar O Pallavi''''' (''The peasants on the banks of river Balan and Pallavi'') is a [[short story]] collection, written by Dr [[Binod Bihari Verma]], on the village life of [[Mithila (India)|Mithila]] on the banks of the [[Kosi River]] and its tributaries.<br />
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==Overview==<br />
This short story collection has fourteen short stories centering on the village society of [[Mithila (India)|Mithila]]. The focus of the stories and the protagonists are from the middle and lower middle class of the population. It deals with their social interactions, their dreams and aspirations, and their interaction with the predominant forces of their environment namely, the rivers.<br />
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===Explanation of the Book's title===<br />
'''Balanak Bonihar O Pallavi''' means the tiller by the river and ''Pallavi'', a common feminine name neing a metaphor for the agricultural produce of the farmer. It is the title of the first short story in this collection and is reflective of the general theme of the stories.<br />
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==Critical reception==<br />
* {{cite book |author= Various| title= Encyclopedia of Indian Literature |series= Vol.5 | publisher= [[Sahitya Akademi]], New Delhi | pages= 4053 }} has the following review:<blockquote><br />
His stories focus on human values and are full of tenderness and pathos.<br />
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==Characters in "Balanak bonihar o pallavi"==<br />
Most of the short stories have certain similar central characters, these are:<br />
* Balan: The "river" or the flood waters<br />
* Sounse: Gangetic [[river dolphin]], Platenista gangetica, which populates [[Koshi River|kosi]] and its tributaries, now a species on verge of extinction<br />
* Oxygen, Hydrogen: Representing the chemicals<br />
* Various human characters having different names although representing similar socioeconomic strata:<br />
** Rannu Sardar<br />
** Sulochana<br />
** Saheb<br />
** Gonour babu<br />
* Real life characters:<br />
** Prof Upendra Thakur<br />
** Prof [[Radha Krishna Choudhary]]<br />
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==Major themes==<br />
* Life on the banks of rivers in [[Mithila (India)|Mithila]]<br />
* Environmental pollution<br />
* Lot of the women in Mithila<br />
* Marital relationship in the rural poor<br />
* The annual cycle of flooding and the devastation<br />
* Unemployment<br />
* Curse of the Dowry system in Mithila<br />
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==Allusions and references==<br />
* River: [[Kosi river]]<br />
* People:<br />
** Prof [[Upendra Thakur]]<br />
** Prof [[Radha Krishna Choudhary]]<br />
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==Stories==<br />
# ''Balanak bonihar o pallavi''<br />
# ''Kunti karna o parshuram''<br />
# ''Sulochnak chatisar''<br />
# ''Saheb''<br />
# ''Brahma - bisun - rati''<br />
# ''Ham pan khelonhh''<br />
# ''Fulak katha''<br />
# ''Antarmukhi vasundhara''<br />
# ''Kasha k ful''<br />
# ''Machhak piknik''<br />
# ''Jivan - nao''<br />
# ''Ka purush''<br />
# ''Gonour babu''<br />
# ''Aakash ful''<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://catalog.lib.washington.edu:2082/search/aVarm%7B229%7Da%2C+Vinoda+Bih%7B229%7Dar%7B229%7Di/avarma+vinoda+bihari/1%2C2%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=avarma+vinoda+bihari&1%2C1%2C University of Washington Library entry of Balanak Bonihar O Pallavi]{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}<br />
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[[Category:Books on Mithila Region]]<br />
[[Category:Maithili-language books]]<br />
[[Category:Indian short story collections]]<br />
[[Category:1994 short story collections]]<br />
[[Category:Culture of Bihar]]<br />
[[Category:Culture of Mithila]]<br />
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