Indira Goswami
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The book opens with one of the most sensitive parts of the author’s autobiography which was first published in Assamese. It deals with her childhood at Shillong, her obsession about death and her intense love for her father, the European teachers of her school. She goes on to tell us about her youth hounded by death and darkness. She writes about her various admirers, and her first love and life with her husband who was killed in a terrible ...
This book introduces to the readers in India as well as abroad the glorious treasure of the two Indian Ramayanas one from the vally of Brahmaputra created by Madhava Kandali in the Assamese language and the other composed by Goswami Tulsi Das in Awadhi.
The Shadow of Kamakhya is a collection of stories set in Assam. Handpicked by the author, the stories are invested with a wealth of detail, which evoke a feel of the region. The themes explored, however, are wide-ranging—the pain of thwarted passion, blighted hopes, the struggle for existence—and they transcend the ambience with ease. The stories are characterised by an unusual sensitivity and a felicity of expression, which at times borders on the poetic. ...
The varied linguistic and cultural multiplicity of India is a rich repository of folkloristic materials, which provides scope for sociological, anthropological, linguistic and folkloristic investigation. The National Seminar on Indian Folklore on which this book is based was jointly organized by the Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies, University of Delhi and Assam Sahitya Sabha, Delhi Branch, Delhi and took place at the University of ...
The poems in this collection cover the various themes that have left an imprint on Dr. Goswami's heart and mind. The very themes which became the plots of her fictions have also become the imaginations and feelings expressed in her poems. The terrible sense of pain that the sight of buffalo sacrifice creates in her, of an inexplicable surge of pain and awe that the river Brahmaputra brings about, of love and grief that company of the beloved offers…themes ...
‘An Unfinished Autobiography’ is, indeed, an unfinished one. The author, winner of the Bhartiya Jnanpith Award 2000, has already started work on its sequel. A veritable account of her struggle through life, the autobiography is a truly engrossing piece of work. Winner of the Bhartiya Jnanapith Award 2000 and Sahitya Akademi Award, for her literary works, Indira Goswami is a uniquely-gifted writer. In the words of Kamala Das, the well-known Indian writer, ...
Katha proudly presents Indira Goswami's hugely successful novel, the Man from Chinnamasta. Set in the times of unrest and turmoil at the turn of the twentieth century, the novel paints the hoary history of Assam's most famous temple of the Sakta cult, Kamakhya. The story flows as swiftly as the Brahmaputra; it holds the reader’s attention as seductively. And as the narrative moves inexorably towards its end, we see the power of the storyteller in Indira ...
Ravana is one of the most fascinating characters in the epic traditions of the world. His uniqueness comes from the tact that he is not merely a villain but also a highly accomplished character in arts and learning. Ravana's accomplishments make him a most distinct villain in the epic traditions of the world. The different essays that are brought together in this volume bring out this greatness in the character of Ravana. The essays also show how the ...