A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Essayist: Memoirs, Personal Essays, Criticisms

Kolkata: Shabdayaan & Boighar-Shantiniketan. February 2023. ISBN 9789358137101. INR 400 (Paperback). [Delivery - INR 90.00]

This fascinating collection of memoirs, personal essays and criticisms maps the young essayist Amit Shankar Saha's journey from his school days, to his days at the university as a doctoral scholar, and his emergence as a poet, curator, and assistant professor at a university. The 36 essays included in this volume is a rich melange that captures the essayist's varying moods and areas of critical interest that range from Amartya Sen's Lecture on 'Justice', Post Postcolonialism, the erudition of Dr Santanu Majumdar to innocuous subjective recollections such as 'My first writing experience', 'Calcutta Book Fair and Me' and 'How a Conference made me ponder' among others. This volume will surely motivate and inspire young students and scholars to go forward on their very own special expeditions, by tracking Amit Shankar Saha's evolving odyssey as a scholar, poet, critic and essayist who has recorded with enthusiasm and critical understanding his varied experiences and responses to the world around him and the world within him. Ranging from intellectual discourse to sensitive impressions, this collection will undoubtedly prove that poet and critic Amit Shankar Saha is a skilled prose stylist as well. 

-         Sanjukta Dasgupta

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