Someone has rightly said, "Every end in fact has a beginning. The way night begins at the end of the day .The way day begins at the end of the night. If there has been tears at the end of happiness, there too has been celebration at the end of sorrow."
As a novel "Begins from Here" is a piece of solemn expression of both the inherent tolerance of a woman and potential strength for her protestation as an awakened soul.
It gives the lively narration of love, betrayal, struggle, protestation and finally success of Urbashi, the main protagonist of the narrative. The novel is brilliant and unique in the sense it does not confirm to the rules of the tradition and generalization. For example when Urbashi, the heroine asks Pulak, the hero, "How do you define our relationship?"
His answer is not to define the relationship in the ambit of lover, husband, father and son that arbitrarily confines the relationships in the narrow lanes of those words.
"There exists a relationship between man and woman which is nameless and holds infinite in its embrace."
Based on realities of contemporary happenings, Eithu Arambha is distinctive in its message and unique in its creation as a novel.
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
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978-1-64560-157-9 (9781645601579)
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The writer, Gourahari Das, can be called a traveller. His journeys, both figurative and actual, both inward and outward, have made a writer of him. Born in 1960, in a back-of-the -beyond Indian village, Sandhagara near river Mantei he has come a long way. Real-life experiences acquired while growing up in an impoverished monastery sharpened his skills as a writer and endowed him with a sensibility laced with compassion and humour, which gives his creative being its distinctive character. His first book, Juara Bhatta (High Tide, Low tide), a short story collection, was published when he was only 21 years old. He has now as many as 70 books to his credit, which include novels, short-story collections, vignettes, travelogues, plays and essays. Gourahari has visited many countries across continents and leads a life full of activities. Many of his works have been translated into English, which include The Little Monk and Other Stories, The Nail and Other Stories, Koraput and Other Stories and The Shades of Life. He has received several awards such as Sahitya Akademi ( India's national Akademi of letters) Award, Odisha Sahitya Akademi Award, Sangeet Natak Akademi Prize. He was also Senior Fellow of the Ministry of Culture of India and a Writer in Residency of Sahitya Akademi. Gourahari lives in Bhubaneswar, India.
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