APPRECIATION OF SHARMISTHA CHATTERJEE'S PROSE WORK ON RAMAKRISHNA AND GIRISH

APPRECIATION OF SHARMISTHA CHATTERJEE'S PROSE WORK ON RAMAKRISHNA AND GIRISH

A brilliant piece. Really proud of you. Beautiful, poetic, lucid, lyrical style, like a waltzing in words through a rarefied realm of spiritual beauty, an atmosphere of ideas bubbling in sublimity where your words are caressing to burst them at the surface of the lake before encapsulating them within. The preeminent feature of the piece is the sheer musicality in literary rendition. There are no rough edges to it, no coarse outlines that mar the delicate mass within. There is a sublimity to the narrative, brought forth not so much by the factual content as by the manner of its presentation. The essay seems to levitate, lifting the reader's mind with it. There is no jarring note, no corrosive contact with the mundaneness of the earth. Yet, factual it remains despite its ethereal mode, its flight in imagery, its poetic verbal enunciation and its pulsating lyricism. This grand synthesis seems to be naturally your style, a composite consequence of your harmonic thinking. Here your vast erudition seems to have found expression unconsciously as a habitual naturalness which has become your composite style. Your thoughts are deepening by the day and augurs well for the future, not only for your own self but for your expectant readers as well among whom I would be gladdened to consider myself as one. You write well and you write well, indeed.

Written by Sugata Bose