The aftermath of Babri Mosque demolition and the Bombay blasts in India, 1992-1993, found its violent echoes even in a remote village of West Bengal adjacent to the India-Bangladesh border where the story begins to unfold. Dostojee is a story of friendship between two eight-year-old boys belonging to two warring religious communities: Palash, the son of a Hindu Brahmin, and Safikul, the son of a Muslim weaver.
