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Source: The Last Bloom by Poulomi Sen Gupta: Book Review

‘The Last Bloom’ is a story of Priya, her dreams, aspirations and struggles to fit into her new college life and its politics.

Priya was ecstatic, as she was admitted to her dream college.

All her visions of adventurous rock climbing trips, long night jollification with bosom friends, class bunking in lieu of movie shows, tasting lip smacking street side delicacies with classmates—a new exciting world would now unfold before her!

But college is different from Priya’s idyllic dreams.

In an environment as opposed to that of school, exposed to an educational system, which is controlled by political unions, will naïve Priya be able to survive without any political protection?

Caught between the college hero Suvo’s charming words and her acrid tussles with conceited college dropout Vivek, will immature Priya be able to differentiate between cajoling false comrades and brutally honest well-wishers?

Often degraded by the skittish Shweta and saved by the blunt rebellious Aashi, will Priya be able to identify her friends and stand up for them, against fierce opposition?

As Priya undertakes her journey of self-discovery, will she succumb to her deep-seated fears and insecurities or will she survive the ultimate test of time?

 

The interplay of light and shade accentuated the contradistinction of the black and the white, with the providence of grey in the spaces between their togetherness.

All the shots were soft, precise, yet powerful.

The photographs did not just show something, they captured a moment of life in all its grace and distinctness.My attention was completely captivated by the excellent perspective and marvelous contrast.

 

The differentiation between the inhospitable frozen mountaintops that met the sky and habituated hilly grasslands that sprawled beneath them;
The incongruity between the obscure perfection of the fog encapsulated shrines and the obvious disproportion of the snow laden hilly cottages;
The dissimilitude between geometric minimalism of the cold glacial desert expanse and inestimable abundance of the colorful floral association;
The divergence between the unknown sinuous pathways and the familiar smooth mountainous roads;
The variance between the surreal intangible fleeting white clouds and the tangible pointed soaring peaks;
The contradistinction between the profound cavernous gorges and the frivolous hasty streams;
The distinction between the light and the shade, black and white,
simple yet extraordinary; colorlessly picturesque;
silently articulate.