Bijoylakshmi Barman

The play Raktakarabi, known in English as Red Oleanders by Rabindranath Tagore, is set in the fictional kingdom of Yakshapuri, where inhabitants toil as slaves in gold mines under the rule of an unseen king who remains concealed behind a screen in his palace.

Anandi is left all alone as her family disintegrates and even her boyfriend goes abroad and marries another girl. However, she forgets all her sorrows and accepts every situation of life.

The sudden death of Indraneel, a poet, averts a possible divorce and takes Radhika on a fantastic inward journey of discovering her own roots through the language of poetry and lost love. A publisher asks Radhika to complete Indraneel's works. This compels her to study his work, and thus begins her journey into the past.