Cover of Sajal Santusti Aru Kichu Rachana

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Sajal Santusti Aru Kichu Rachana

সজল সন্তুষ্টি আৰু কিছু ৰচনা · Dr. Kumar Partha Pratim

A collection of reflective writings – essays and narratives that move through childhood, parental sacrifice, gender, silent injustices, and the ordinary beauty of human feeling.

The author does not claim the mantle of a literary figure. He offers lived truths: a child’s suppressed smile, a mother’s burdened silence, society’s quieter hypocrisies. The prose is unpretentious, yet it asks the reader to pause – to remember how we treat others, how we remember our parents, and how easily we forget to remain human in the pursuit of success.

Publisher
Kasturi Prakashan, Guwahati
First edition
January 2017
Form
Essays & reflective prose

The four parts

How the volume is arranged

The book moves in four movements – from what was lived, to what was half-imagined, to the figure of the mother, and then a lighter close.

01

বাস্তৱ

What was seen in the clinic and in ordinary days.

02

কিছু বাস্তৱ, কিছু কল্পনা

Lived fact, joined to a measure of invention.

03

হয়, তেখেত এগৰাকী মাতৃ

The mother as presence, labour, and quiet centre.

04

কিছু ধেমালি

A lighter register, still of the same hand.

From the page

At its core this is a human document – not only a book to be read, but one to be felt, reflected upon, and remembered.

Book review

ডঃ ঊষামণি কাকতি

Dr. Ushamoni Kakoti · গ্রন্থ আলোচনা

She takes the author’s own refusal – that these pieces are not offered as literature – and still places the volume in that thinner Assamese line of reflective writing: personal experience offered as a way of seeing.

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Dr. Kumar Partha Pratim · Official personal website · Guwahati, Assam