JALA-PADMA
Genre : Novel
Publisher : Assam Book depot, Guwahati
Year : 1999
Synopsis
JALA-PADMA (Water-Lotus), It was the worst of time for the people of Assam and the best of time for the detached middle class observers of the situation. Assam was in a whirlpool of problems murder, kidnapping, atrocities on innocent people, looting and arson being the order of the day while the author wrote the novel. She observed the situation keenly and was distressed although she was like everybody, mired with selfish interests in life, there is a limit to everything and human life too cannot cross it. But still we are uncertain about what actually happens around us. The plot of this novel was constructed on such a line.
The story revolves round kalyani, her husband Sanjoy , son Rupam and some miscreants, calls self – styled “rebels”. Sanjoy challenged them and was paid back in his own coin by the miscreants, who kidnapped his son Rupam, who remained trace-less till the end of the novel.
Kalyani, an otherwise happy house wife , had a soft corner for the rebels and when her only son was kidnapped, her agony knew no bounds . She was in a labyrinth of hope and despair, love and hatred. It’s a tale of an eternal motherhood.
The treatment is emotional and without inertia. Everything around kalyani moves fast leaving her alone in the thick of things.
The author brings the suspense of the story to the highest point and resolves it to relieve the readers.
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