Short Stories

Links to my short stories that are translated to English and available online:

If interested feel free to click on their name to read:

The Gift (Written 1999,1st Published in Prantik (প্রান্তিক ২০০০),English Translation Kamal Nayan Baruah :,Assam Tribune ,Nov 2009.)
          genre: :fun, comic, simple
Fantasia (Written 2002-2003,1st Published in Sadin (শাৰদীয় সাদিন ২০০৪),English Translation Uddip Talukdar :,melange ;The Sentinel ,Nov 2010.,NE Quest 2011 )
          genre: Sci -fi :
The Post modern Short Story (Written 2006,1st Published in Sadin(সাদিন ২০০৬),English Translation :Uddip Talukdar :Indian review ,2011.)
genre: Philosophy ,literature

The Strike :(Written 2007,Published Jatra) 
genre: :True event nostalgia ,youth hood ,experimentation with narrative style

The Journey (Written 2003 ,Published in Etyadii(ইত্যাদি) (Sunday edition Janasadharan (দৈনিক জনসাধৰণ)),Also a part of Natunar Swaralipi (নতুনৰ স্বৰলিপি)A collection of selected Assamese short stories by twenty five young writers edited  by Mr.Pankaj Thakur and Arindom Borkotoky ,2009,Published in Enajori 

An Evening in Paris  (Written 1997 ,A fun story about young minds in school ) e publication in Enajori

About art history fictionalization 3: Surrealism

Topoema:Palm of the traveler by Octavio Paz

André Masson Automatic Drawing.

It was a long traumatic mental journey. The nerve of fictionalizing Impressionism, Dadaism and then Surrealism was weird, bizarre may be uncalled for. But once started I could not hold back.

It was a big challenge as Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and an abrupt, illogical, unexpected turn.

That was a trap.

I began to read and while going through few of the surrealist history I got to know about Automatism. I was amazed when I saw André Masson Automatic Drawing.

So I thought may be the surrealism started with Automatism as in his painting (!) all he did was to  let his pen flow freely to express itself ….(and many time ,my pen also directs everything …so actually it’s not me, it is my pen (or the key board) doing all the creative work.

The end product may become something like an encrypted maze or a labyrinth very hard to decipher. After this observation my characters started to see some light inside the zigzag puzzle it was in.

‘Eureka’: One of the characters said who was entrapped inside the topoema’s created many decade ago by Nobel laureate Octavio Paz

That’s why while trying to fictionalize Surrealism, I found out the very core meaning of being myself. While expressing oneself in some ISM can be a prisoner’s experience; handcuffed by limitations of definition, boundaries, time and space.  Meaning of any ‘isms’ we should be free and spontaneous.

So the character tried to break free from the rule.

Let the freedom rule over my pen (or the key board, now days) as these are my only weapon in my fight against the organized cliché.

I flipped through my dairy and found resonating verse I wrote may be 15 years back.

Is read:

Breaking the

Linguistics rule

Holding the pen

Unplanned

If we could build a new scenario,

Undefined Characters, Society,

Avenues, shores, cities, songs and others.

Spontaneous but sovereign;

And without a reason,

Every incident

Every moment,

Everyone,

Every day!

Dismissing mental calculations for ever,

Flowers

Colours

Rivers & clouds.

Whatever, whenever!

Also read DADA, Impressionism