About the book
A well-equipped barge on a wide riverbank, slowly moving upstream. The novelist
is sitting on the roof of the barge. There are white papers and pen in front of him.
He is writing, a detailed description of the river, buildings, temporary sand dunes
on the banks of the river, tents in Tripol of few small rural fairs. The novelist
continues to write page after page, today he is satisfied. But he has lost sight of
some events. The bride is riding in a small boat coming from the opposite
direction having two opposite feelings in her heart. She left behind his father,
mother, adolescence…... Moments of anguish await. The prospect of a new life in
a new place, the excitement of having a family with her husband. A young
woman in her thirties, losing her sindur, with tears in her eyes, fearing an
uncertain future, is returning home from the ghat. The dumb boy is standing
beside the burning cheetah, he has just lost his father. A young woman at the fair
forever, sitting hunched over and buying glass bangles without knowing that, her
dream man, lost his life on the battlefield two days before or the young man who
sits on the bank of the river with a bored look, reminiscing about the happy days
spent with his beloved and weeping silently. Due to caste and religion, his beloved
was never found in his life. These small feelings of happiness and sorrow, which
are deeply rooted in human life, which are contemporary but eternal….. was
noticed by a person. He was a writer of short stories. The author is weaving a
garland of joys and sorrows, acknowledging the emotions of those unspoken
people.
About the author
SUBHASHIS CHOWDHURY, born in the year 1966 at Chittaranjan; a railway
township situated in Bengal-Jharkhand border. Primary & high schooling
completed at his birth place. Came to Kolkata for higher studies and got admitted
in Maharaja Manindra Chandra College. Started writing on the wall magazine of
that college with the pen-name ‘SUBHO’. But, returned from Kolkata after couple
of years after getting job in Indian Railways at his native place. Writing had been
stopped but became a good reader of Bengali literature consists of novel, short
story & poem. Realising that the short stories are more lively than the novels,
affection was generated towards the short stories; specially written by eminent
writers like Ramapada Chowdhury, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, Bibhutibhusan
Bandopadhyay, Banoful, Manik Bandopadhyay etc. Got inspiration from their
short stories and started writing seriously in the year 2017.
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