Essays
Write-ups, as they were published
Where the same writing appeared on both xahitya.org and the Facebook page, both doors are given.
The landing story is সৰিয়হ ফুলৰ দৰে (Like a mustard flower) – the author’s first story.
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Assamese
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20 · August 2026
গৰ্ভাৱস্থা আৰু আইৰণজনিত ৰক্তহীনতা
Pregnancy and iron-deficiency anaemia
A night call in Morigaon: a woman brought too late, a child already still, and the cost of a household that would not take her to a doctor.
19 · August 2026
হয় তেখেত এগৰাকী মাতৃ
Yes, she is a mother
A casualty night: a woman with a torn viscus thinks first of the cut on her daughter’s forehead.
18 · August 2026
শিশুৰ মায়’পিয়া
Childhood myopia
Near sight in children, told as an ophthalmologist would tell it.
17 · 2018-19
মাহীআই
The aunt who is not a mother
A pehi from Nagaon, and whether an aunt can stand in a mother’s place.
16 · 2018
উকা
A one-minute story
A minute at a bedside: a name called, and no answer.
15 · 2018
শিশু দিৱসৰ চিন্তা
A thought on Children’s Day
Three small exchanges at the clinic door.
14 · November 2018
ভগৱান
God
A woman on the hospital footpath, a child in her arms. On both venues.
13 · 31 October 2018
জধামূৰ্খৰ গেং
The gang of the foolish
A junior wakes a KG-1 child at five to study.
12 · 23 September 2018
সজল সন্তুষ্টি
The title essay of the book
The opening piece of the 2017 book, posted again on Facebook.
11 · 26 August 2018
ৰাখী দিৱসৰ চিন্তা
A thought on Rakhi
A sister after a caesarean: you have become a mama again.
10 · 5 August 2018
স্তব্ধ অনাহূত জীৱন
A silenced, uninvited life
A meeting with Atanu da. First printed in Tṛṣṇātur, January 2017.
09 · 2018
বিবাহিত জীৱনৰ ইটো সিটো
This and that of married life
Manasi and Chandan, and a sentence that a marriage cannot hold.
08 · 2018
সন্তান
Children
A reunion ten years after medical college.
07 · 2017-26
সেই সেউজীয়া ফ্ৰকটো
That green frock
A birthday, a frock, and a child in the same old green. On both venues.
06 · 2018
শৰশয্যা
A bed of arrows
Baishali and Prajnan. First printed in Tṛṣṇātur, January 2016.
05 · 19 July 2017
মানুহ হোৱাৰ গৌৰৱ
The dignity of remaining human
A lift given to a gravely ill stranger. On both venues.
04 · 2017 · Featured
সৰিয়হ ফুলৰ দৰে
Like a mustard flower
The author’s first story, of Deb and Priyanka.
03 · 2017
অবুজন অভিমান
A child’s unspoken hurt
A younger brother, and a promise to keep him close.
02 · March 2017
প্ৰেম
Love
Love as duty, language, family, and the will to go on after it fails.
01 · October 2016
বিবাহ-বাৰ্ষিকী
Wedding anniversary
A wedding anniversary almost forgotten, a photograph in the drawing room, and Manasi waiting for a wish.
A note
These are not offered as literature. They are what was seen – in the clinic, in a household, on the road home from duty.
Dr. Kumar Partha Pratim · Official personal website