This time when i went home, i could anticipated it as coming. And It happened. This is a feeling you get after you accomplish something. Nothing much to do in the weekdays; most of my friends would be typing in daytime as well as when owls start hooting. So this gave me the chance of lifetime when i found two great books were gleefully winking at me.
Witty, sarcastic humour for me is the highest form of emotion a writer could evoke.Doulgas Adams knew it well how to do it when he started writing ‘The Hitchhiker’s guide to galaxy’. It starts with ‘A Blue planet where people still think digital watches are cool’ and then I could sense what was coming in my way. Brilliant witty humour coupled with a mind boggling science fiction. After a long time i was reading a science fiction. Ray, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov or recent day’s Michael Crichton all are/were greats, Douglas Adams definitely climbs up into that list happily. His writing is completely diverse and refreshing to read.
After the joy ride of Hitchhiker’s I was faced with the thought provoking account of Bengal history in the Bengali Novel named ‘Shei Somoy’ by flamboyant writer Sunil Ganguly.An epic of a book capturing the history from 1840s to 1870s.He mentioned the main protagonist in this novel as none other than ‘The time’ itself. From Ishwarchanda Vidyasagar to Michael Madhusudhan dutt’ from Indigo plantation movement to Widow Remarriage, all the historically significant entities are captured and enlivened in this book. A Must read for all people who can read and fathom Bengali.
Last but not the least, i punctuated this marvellous journey of books with back to back splendid plays.Rudraprasad Sengupta’s Agaytwaas (The Incognito) told a story of an old lady who seem to lose her memory every now and which then ably followed by a rib tickling comedy of Arindam Ganguly’s ‘Chalo Potol tuli (it translates as lets die).That was based on the short stories of Shibaram Chakroborty, one of my favourite writers. One cracker of a week i must say. Let’s hope i am able to spend by well deserving breaks in this way.
