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The author in Roman Basu actualizes a rare order of awareness in his verses. A multi-universe of experience is indeed reflected in his words. The poet in him is often all praise and obsessed with the symbol of the heart’s ascent. His words are quietly recharged with an unusual, confiding intimacy, as well as firmly expressed intensity. Even then the usual struggle of a poet with his demon is nowhere evident in any of his verses. By and large they express the ...
Romen Basu one of India’s significant novelists and poets has once again written in his latest novel "Breach of Faith" about the neglect of, and injustice towards, the poor street children of India. Like his previous crusading novels, he has written about children—victims of class and caste who have been driven to seek shelter in cardboard boxes on the streets or on platforms in railway stations. The story revolves around two children whose ...
One of India’s leading novelists Romen Basu has yet again written for a cause, he plight of the Israelis and the Palestinians looking for a just solution. Though fiction this work is more true to life than any historical novel. This is Basu’s fiftieth novel and twenty-ninth published work. This novel “has pained him†says the author for decades in which the two sides are not finding a compromise solution rather than settling their disputes with swords. ...