This book, Intimate Tussles, presents in translation a set of Manik Bandyopadhyay’s early stories, written in his twenties and early-thirties. In these, he examines the man-woman relationship, generally in the context of conjugality, mostly within extended families, with his unsentimental, clear-eyed observation of real life around him. The stories relate to various socioeconomic classes in rural, semi-urban, and urban Bengal of the time. Their accounts of intimate tussles focus on the interactive processes of ongoing change in relationships, not on finding a final resolution or conclusion.