Samar Deber ‘Lohit Parer Upokatha’ Uponyas : Jibon Zantronar Akhya/ সমর দেবের ‘লোহিত পারের উপকথা’ উপন্যাস : জীবন যন্ত্রণার আখ্যান

Abstract

Northeast India is known as the state of seven sisters. This north-east India is also known as the third world. Various castes and tribes live in this world. However, the number of Bengalis is comparatively more in the states of Assam and Tripura. Amidst various unrest and hatred, Bengalis have kept their language and literature alive through writing. Literary practice in Assam is mainly concentrated in two valleys, the Barak Valley and the Brahmaputra Valley. Although the context of Bengali literary practice in these two valleys is similar in many respects, it is different in several respects. The Bengalis of the Brahmaputra Valley are mainly identified as ‘external expatriates’. Since the Bengalis of this valley have to coexist with the Assamese, their level of crisis is of a different nature. In short, the Bengalis here have to struggle constantly. Partition is a great story of danger in the life of Bengalis. Even after independence came through partition, the Bengali heart was also divided. Before the wounds or pain of that partition could heal, the blow of foreign expulsion doubled that pain. And the victims of that violence were the helpless common people. Political and ethnic problems are the main subject of most of the literature of the Brahmaputra Valley. Samar Deb is one of the poets of the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam. One of his notable novels is ‘Lohit Parer Upokatha’ (2010). The toiling common people living on the banks of the Brahmaputra River, despite living in Assam for a long time, have to endure the pain and struggle to survive of not being able to become citizens of Assam. In short, the story of the precarious life of the people of the slums along the Brahmaputra is the subject of the novel ‘Lohit Parer Upokatha’.