Ei Samay Sei Samay

by Rita Chowdhury, ৰীতা চৌধুৰী

Ei Samay Sei Samay is a novel by Rita Choudhury, who is a Sahitya Akademi Award and Assam Sahitya Sabha Award recipient. The story focuses on a certain period of the history of Assam, which can be regarded as the formative years of Assam’s nationalism. With various distinctive women characters, the novel encompasses the fictionalized impacts of political and socio-political movements on the lives of women during the period.The story revolves around the past and present of the character Aditi Choudhury, who was an active leader of Assam Movement (1979-1985) and now is a lecturer. While the past version of Aditi, and many other women, took active part like their male counterparts, neglecting the traditional roles and values of women in a patriarchal society, the present demeanour of the character is the ideal wife of the fellow revolutionary Chandan Phukan, who is now a successful politician.

470 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Rita Chowdhury is an award-winning Assamese poet and writer. A former associate professor at Cotton University, Rita is currently the director of the National Book Trust, India.

An important voice in contemporary Assamese literature, Rita has written fifteen novels that portray a vivid picture of her strife-torn state.

Chinatown Days (Makam) is one of her best-known works.

Reviews

[Shobhanjana · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting book depicting the socio-political scene of Assam from the time of the Assam Movement to the present day, wrapped in an emotional storyline of self-discovery, courage and morality. I believe the author has based the central character of Aditi Choudhury on herself, judging by some of the similarities to her own life (which were revealed by herself on a TV show). I thoroughly enjoyed the characters even though most of them are completely black and white, much to my scepticism. Not that I completely disbelief the existence of such black and white characters, but I believe the grey ones are more common. Either way, I feel a book has much to offer if it makes me think in ways I have never before considered. This book succeeds in doing that and hence on my favorites list.

However, I was very disappointed with the editing, as there were several typographical errors throughout, as well as a few serious goof ups.

[Jimoni Bhuyan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice book

[Scientia Assamese Books & Bengali Books · Rating 5 out of 5]

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এই সময় সেই সময় : ৰীতা চৌধুৰী
Ei Samay Sei Samay
written by Rita Choudhury
Published by Nagen Sarmah
LANGUAGE: ASSAMESE
Publication: Jyoti Prakashan
RS: 350

[Navaneeta · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a fascinating read. A little contrived in its telling though; could have been improved with better editing.