Alarmed at the rapid depletion of vast stretches of forests around them, and the threat of ecological imbalance, five poets of the Kaurab literary group purchased about 100 acres of land near Bandowan (classified as an Arid 3 Zone by environmentalists), in the Purulia District of West Bengal. These poets used their savings to create a pollution-free, eco-friendly, community-development oriented world and a poetry-colony too. They called it Bhalopahar (an exact translation would be "the good mountain"). A unique school was built soon to educate local tribal children. From Kaurab, a literary magazine, to Bhalopahar school, is an amazing journey of a group of people who chose to live life and write about it somewhat differently.