Kailashe Kelenkari

Feluda is now at Ellora and this time his client is quite unexpectedly Sidhujetha. Well it is not so unexpected if the type of crime is to be considered. If the villains are bent on disrupting the heritage of the country by smuggling her rich artifacts to foreign lands, who can be more affected than the pure Indian soul of Sidhujetha.

It started with him stumbling on a rare piece of the art that the vandals of India took from a Bhubaneswar temple and a foreign collector Saul Silversteign bought it at a nominal price. But it seemed fate was against Saul who became a victim of a plane crash and the news made Sidhujetha hopeful of recovering the priceless art from the debris of the crash. So it was the athletic Feluda and Topshe coming to his aid and they immediately set out to the crash site near Sadikpur. But the smugglers were also on the way and it was them that got the piece of art first. So there was no option left to Feluda and company than to chase the criminals till Ellora to recover the piece and prevent them from further misdeeds. The pace of the story is fascinating and the readers will find a new side of the Feluda revealed which is his master disguises that even made both Lalmohan and Topshe baffled at times. The comic reliefs are also equally great but it’s the shroud of mystery that made the adventure an absorbing read.