Publish Date
15 Aug, 2025
About This Book
Two strangers, Achira and Samudra wash ashore in one shared accommodation in the maddening city of Mumbai. Despite the differences in their present occupations and past wars they fought, their understanding of life’s luminescence and dark, conversations role. Words give birth to eloquent silences, silences melt away with words oozing from deep within. Written in a unique dialogic form and masterfully translated by V. Ramaswamy, “The Sea” also quietly celebrates its eco-feminist bearing as it attempts to reveal the inner lives of humans as they weave words to connect, to acknowledge fall and rise beyond, to live and be free.
About The Author
Currently, Swati Guha is Director of Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), Kolkata, which is affiliated to the Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal. Prior to this, Dr. Guha was Director of Nazrul Centre for Social and Cultural Studies, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal and the Development Officer of Sidho Kanho Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal. She has long expertise on postcolonial literary and cultural history. Being a scholar of postcolonial literature, Bengali language and literature and an alumnus of Presidency College and Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Dr. Swati Guha has also been an award-winning author. She has focused mostly on issues of gender and development and cultural history. Creative writing is her area of strength and passion. She was also a lecturer at the Department of Bengali, Prafulla Chandra College, Kolkata, West Bengal and has delivered academic lectures at various institutions of India, Bangladesh, the UK and the USA. Her publications include many novels, short stories and academic monographs on Bengali poetry and Bengali literature.
Moving Words
Moving Words is the imprint of Antonym collections focussed on translation of literary text into English
