The present volume is a collection of nine of Rita Chattopadhyay’s several articles that had been published in various journals over time. Most of these articles are in English but a few are in Bengali and Devanagari as well. The articles deal with modern Sanskrit dramas which has been the forte of her research oeuvre, as well as other themes like medical science in ancient India, etc. This volume deserves a place in the library of all students, scholars, an
"Parshati" is an exploration into the emotional vicissitudes of a modern Indian woman. The novel, named after the protagonist, Parshati, navigates the alleys and corners of the psyche of a modern woman who has recently lost her mother and is estranged from one she has deeply been in love with. The novel spans a year of Parshati’s life, where she writes in her diary, what she otherwise would have told her mother, who had been her closest friend, had she been
Did I ever meet You? The simple answer is No, I never wanted to. A simpler answer is Yes, millions of times, in the gravity of spaces, in the eternity of moments, in the vortex of storms, in mellow dusks, and in grains of sands… You are ‘now’ and ‘here’. And You are ‘never’ and ‘nowhere’. Here is a collection of poems from the deepest chasms of unfulfilled desires and solitary musings, that somehow make the unbearable bearable, with just a wh