The Club literati, a group of literature lovers of the city organised its first Book Club Discussion on Saturday. Many authors, executives, professors and young literary lovers were involved in this discussion organized on the book ‘The Collected Works of Homen Borgohain’, by Homen Borgohain, author of Assamese language.
At the beginning of the programme, Vinita D Bhatnagar gave a brief introduction of the author. While introducing the author, she quoted Homen and said, “Homen always used to say that if he had been not a writer, he would have become a doctor.” Elaborating further, Vinita said, “You see real characters in Homen's books. The river is definitely in every story, and most of the story itself is just around the river. Their stories are so real that they start doing additive readings.”
Adding to this, Kaniz Razavi who has been an editor for 30 years said that Homen is the receiver of Sahitya Akademi Award and he is married to another literary Academy winner. Both of them have written several books together, which is a unique writing style. But, Homen returned his Sahitya Academy Award in 2015, she added.
Since the book is based on Assam, the police officer of Assam origin and the current Madhya Pradesh Senior Police Officer Sujoy lal Thosan, who took over the discussion. He explained the culture of Assam. He said that there are a total of 450 social groups in Assam who live and speak a different languages. Most of the people are Hindus and believe in cultural traditions that have existed for thousands of years. He said that since the British period, there has been a lot of practice of ‘Kani’ in Assam, especially in tribal. To prevent this, several corrective programs have been started after independence. In many stories of Homen, therefore, references to opium are found.
later, the discussion was followed with the publisher of this book, Manjul's Editor, Neha Shrivastava, Rakesh Dixit, Dr Nilkamal Kapoor and others were a part of the discussion.