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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalProbe and Perceptions brings together thoughts and expressions penned down by authors, in response to their innate sensitivities to their respective experiences at different points in time and space. One would, therefore, finds a juxtaposition of poems in free verse, reminiscences as short stories and articles; all melted as a single collection.
While this being so, a reader’s search for connection across different pieces of writing may not go in vain. For there is a weave of minds that runs along the entire family book – expressing the indiscriminate show of increasing insensitivities as humans move towards mindless hedonistic values on the one hand and an ordinary family’s prayer for collective good to soften the speed of human segmentation and feigned progress.
Every piece of writing that this book holds dear is an expression of pain and a call for purpose.
Sangeeta Maunav, J Sanjukta & M. S. A. Jayaraj
Sangeeta Maunav and J. Sanjukta are M. S. A. Jayaraj‘s daughters. All three are the contributors in this book. Both the daughters are in Government service; Sangeeta Maunav as an Associate Fellow in HUDCO, Central Ministry of Urban Development and J Sanjukta as a graduate teacher in a state government school.
M S A Jayaraj belongs to IRAS cadre. He retired from railways twenty-three years ago and is settled in Chennai and is an empty nester living with his wife. He is now a prostate cancer patient.
As a boy, he used to contribute short stories and articles in English to the local papers in Bengal and to one monthly magazine in Varanasi.
M S A Jayaraj’s wife is a Bengali Brahmin from West Bengal. It was an arranged marriage.
