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Restless Waters of the Ichhamati is a celebration of flora and fauna, particularly of the profusion of commonly found plant life that flourishes in most regions of Bengal. The gaze of a slow-moving attentive river-farer brings into view glimpses of vibrant plant life, traces of human habitation and changes of sky and water in the course of seasons. These are signs, evoking the flow of time in which generations unknown have lived and those unborn will live along ...
There are no dense forests dose to human habitation. The forests lie in a distant land where, on the banks of the Godavari, the winds are burdened with the smell of the ripe-fallen jambu fruit. Aranyak is an account of that imaginary land. This is not a travelogue; nor is it a diary, it is a novel…. Yet, the background of Aranyak is not entirely imagined. There used to be, and there still are, such vast expanses of forest spreading to the horizon…