This century had started 14 years ago and unlike the previous one the world was not drafting 19-year-olds to a great war so that they could die in the trenches.
What I read and what I am and how I see the world and its people all of it has been shaped by these contrasting yet passionate adventures of reading with my family.
Neeldhaja is probably the first of its kind in Bangla literature. Not just because it is the first Bangla poem to be written in the form of a letter i.e. an epistolary poem, but because it places a female figure with a rebellious demeanor as the protagonist of a historical narrative.