Sabarna Roy: I am a crusader for the cause of Existentialism

In the realm of English literature of India we have poets short story writers play writers and novelists galore but combination of all of them in a single fertile brain is extremely rareDo we have any Yes The readers find them all in Sabarna Roy who making his vibrant entry with Pentacles in the world of words went on to create a personal tryst with readers with other works that followedSabarna a senior engineering professional marvelled the readers with a unique creativity that marks the beginning of a new wave in Indian literature as a whole blending poems with fictional creations in a single novelNo other Indian writer shows this particular trait in their literary adventures This of course offers him a special pedestal in literary circles Sabarna is versatile in the sense that he also published complex technical articles in peerreviewed National and International JournalsAnd he is a poet and author of five bestsellers too In the annals of English literature Sabarna would always occupy the enviable status of a poetstoryteller who dwelt on social realism Very often we find he is crusading for existentialism through his creationsLet us have a wideangle of the process of thought of Sabarna on the social realism that he tried to delve through its manifold layers in Pentacles Frosted Glass Winter Poems Random Subterranean Mosaic and Abyss Their storylines may be different but the matrix of narrative ultimately is realities of postmodern dark and urban human life The hollowness and emptiness of our lives are oozing from his narratives like layered smokeIt is time to have a glimpse at the contents of these five creations of Sabarna who started writing in his university days but stopped it after getting a job But can anyone extinguish the fire of creativity once it is kindled in a human body No NeverAnd it happened with Sabarna too After a gap of about 19 years he again took up a pen and stormed his brain to create one after another book What is most remarkable he explained the human psyche acting on human impulses in its real form through these five books in lucid and uncluttered narrationsWe now will take up Pentacles in the first place not because it is his first book but also to explain why it had a magical impact upon the readers true to the mystic meaning of the title of the bookShould we not try to unravel the uniqueness of Pentacles that contains a novella and four long narrative poems replete with metaphysical metaphors and dreams playing at its corePentacles is intellectually stimulating and it charts the beginning of a wave in Indian literature that had so far been absent in it In the books long story New Life we find the most vivid description of psychological conflicts that its protagonist undergoes within as his mother had deserted himFrosted Glass a story cycle of 14 longshort stories set in Calcutta and a poem cycle of 21 narrative poems with The City of Joy featuring in some of them has Rahul as the protagonist The story revolves around a Modern Man Rahul and all other characters associated with him who make mar and shape his life The story cycle and the poem cycle are replete with an array of enduring and intricate characters plucked from the crucible of urban lifeOn making a critical appraisal of Abyss a fulllength play in two acts with an interval in between what attracts us most is the element of suspense the feeling of what next The conflict of personalities depicted in the most penchant way by Sabarna Abyss at its core is a discussion on complex issues land for agriculture versus land for industry the ethics of a working author the nexus statecraft employs in discharging controversial peoples issuesWithout the grip of human nature nobody could have written this piece In this situational thriller the role played by Renuka ndash the sleuth ndash is particularly noteworthySabarnas poetic genius plus profound knowledge of human psyche ndash underground and deeply guarded ndashfound their best expression in Winter Poems Winter Poems should be an integral part of the leisure reading of any lover of melancholy and darknessThe colours shades and hues that the city of Calcutta assume in the mild season that follows the festivities of Durga Puja and Kali Puja found their wonderful depictions in Winter PoemsLet us turn over the pages of Random Subterranean Mosaic It is akaleidoscope of random yet mysteriously structured to a pattern fiction semiautobiographical and biographical pieces The book covers poems shortshorts opinions observations and conversations Accommodating such a wide variety of genres is possible only by a master storyteller like SabarnaSabarna is presently working on his sixth book a storybook with ideas as its characters to understand the certainty of uncertainty in human life This is likely to be published in the winters of 2021Catch up on all the latest entertainment news and gossip here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest 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