The stream within / Sabitri Roy -- French leave / Purabi Basu -- The weapon / Jahanara Imam -- Salt / Mahasweta Devi -- The confrontation / Sulekha Sanyal -- The corpse / Bani Basu -- The stranger / Nasreen Jahan -- The subalterns / Ashapurna Devi -- The love token / Nabaneeta Dev Sen -- The bride's lament / Anita Agnihotri -- The companions / Chhabi Basu -- Motijan's daughters / Selina Hossain -- Gunin, my friend / Rajlakshmi Devi