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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
A well translated work has in it the beauty of all these truths. Assam, a state of the Northeast of India has her own realities, her fiction, her men and women, living out their lives, in situations, that time and history has created. The Assamese tongue is a fine one, soft and melodious, and her women folk sheltered and protected, are soft beings lost amidst a vibrant crowd. The Assamese tongue has its own nuances, its own edge. The stories and realities of this corner of India need to reach out to different people and countries, so that people speaking an alien tongue may read them. It is necessary for a global understanding.
The stories are all very well translated. They throw the beam of the torchlight on that pertinent angle of social fracture. There the mind is a prisoner. There is Madhavi, Suchana, Leem, Loya, Baruna Chaliha, Aijoni...on the surfaces of the prism of life.
"TALES FROM HER PEN" is an excellently translated work of Assamese stories, highlighting the facts of sanguine desire, ruddy perspectives, dreams of salad days, wry hopes and rumpled dreams. TALES FROM HER PEN has it all in Snigdhamalati Neog's brilliant translation of the contemporary women's stories.
Snigdhamalati Neog
Snigdhamalati Neog served in Sainik School Goalpara Assam. She is a popular writer and translator. Her stories are women oriented and dwell on life and the frustrations of a woman's efforts despite being strong and energetic. The second daughter of the prominent scholar of Assam, Dr. Maheswar Neog, she has built a niche for herself in the world of translation very early in life.
Ms Neog has established herself as a one of the best translators in English from the seventies. Her pithy style, hard bitten grains of truth, in these Assamese tales just flow out. Her handpicked writers and pertinently the selected stories are a reflection of that angle of life that bring about a close parallel with the rest of the world where daughters are shielded from the outside distractions and yet for all that they may not be kept away from the realities of life.
