Aan Ekhon Aranyat (In another forest) evokes the terror spread by the minute corona virus together with the gritty fight-back that unfolds. Arup, a passionate writer, was all eyes and ears to the nightmare. In distant Spain, Lavanu, the celebrity filmmaker, too, felt the same pinch of terror and invited Arup to script the screenplay of his next film on this very theme. Death takes away Dattada’s wife. Vinod’s wife goes missing. Basanti, Andhar, Ananta and Jabbar struggles to make ends meet. Loneliness and dementia are on the prowl. Drug-cartels dig deep. In a dream, an elephant-apple comes walking with its guilit inside. Yet, Jonak and Niyor find new meanings to their love. Lakshman’s mother sheds superstition. Mrigen Baruah’s affirmations of hope goes viral. Anushka and her friends relocates forest right in the metropolis. Ritwik, the dedicated medico, is hailed the new saint. Basanti, who adopts an infant left in a garbage dump, emerges as the new icon. In her honour, her dance like wild butterflies. As Arup weaves this valiant fightback in his screenplay, admirers the novel carries this absorbing drama in its entirety.