Dui Molater Duniya by Abhik Mohan Dutta [Hardcover]

*"After spending over fifteen years in the outside world due to studies and work, when I finally returned to my little cozy corner, I suddenly felt the urge to respond to that provocation. I grabbed my laptop and started writing. As I gradually immersed myself in writing, I was astonished to see how the stories that had taken root in my heart and mind through years of reading naturally found their place in spontaneous lines of text. The more I wrote, the more I felt the wonder of this extraordinary world. Here, books become companions in the journey of life, the lives of colorful characters from the surroundings intertwine seamlessly with the flow of the books read. The Mahabharata becomes the guardian of refugee families, generation after generation. The poignant lines from Bibhutibhushan's novel 'Ichhamati' blend with the plea of an old man seeking his roots. A party-worker milkman futilely carries the hefty volume of Das Kapital. Life constantly gives birth to new stories. A teenage lover listens in awe to the melodious recitations of the neighboring young woman, transforming Joy Goswami into the silent messenger of unspoken love. Sometimes adolescence leans toward forbidden temptations, as the sinful allure of a yellow-covered pocketbook calls out in secret.

Life is vast, as is the world, perhaps. The reader sways in the vibrant waves of this diverse life and arrives at the thresholds of the world. They are astonished to discover that beyond the home, there is another home in the life of books, and even at the end of the path, another path of books lies ahead. Traveling from one continent to another, beyond national boundaries, they realize that despite differences in skin color, language, and land, humanity unites through the embrace of books. In a Swiss Alpine village, a Polish girl stands beside a lively young man from central India, connected through the play 'Dakghar' in the timeless canvas of existence. In the forests of Chhattisgarh, a mad old wanderer casts a long shadow over the open pages of a book bought on the Californian coast. On the banks of the Chinese Sea, in an unknown Japanese town, a shopkeeper finds his God in the poetry of Nirendranath Chakraborty.

This book celebrates those stories. In these moments of narrative immersion, readers gradually become life-thirsty, searching for the genesis of their creation through poetry, sometimes mixing the honey of everyday life into literary critiques, and occasionally gazing at life with a crooked eye."*