The Ghosh family live in, I'm guessing here, a typical middle-class house in Calcuta, West Bengal. It's 1967. There are seventeen of them plus the servants who occasionally get involved in a good way, one kind soul risks the sack by giving Purba a sneaky stash of Vim. Purba, who is from a poor family and has become a widow with two small children after her husband, the youngest son of the clan, went to the country with his pals and raped a...