One Dusk at Dar

Impressions of visting a river and her people

By: Bishnu Goswami

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The modern world is increasingly becoming an urban world. Although lush with ever-increasing avenues of creative expression, the urban world is getting increasingly homogenized. It is very hard, for example, to guess which country a supermarket is from. This brings monotony and people want freedom in the old lap of nature, as the trends in newly industrialized countries show. After all, a luxury house or a yatch can cost millions of dollars, but we can venture a guess that it is absolutely incomparable to the air, water and skies the nature has to offer. Here we take a look in this regard to a river the author considers one of such priceless wonders the nature shares for free. The river in this book is Dar, flowing over the Gangetic valley in India.

The explores Dar in his bicycle, and gets down to the bed in his footsteps. He has done this for over many years, yet it never grows old for him. In this book, he is on yet another journey to his dear river on a hot, at least in the beginning, summer day. He describes his journey in the first person, narrating what he sees and what thoughts occurs to him at that very instant.

This work does not attempt to explain all the experiences Dar has to offer, as they will certainly not fit in a handy book. Instead, it gives a cross section of an afternoon's experience, sprinkled with a moderate topping of how the past relates to the present. The tone of the book is not excessively made vivid and far away from reality. Instead, attention has been paid to the personal perspective of the journey of reflection and relaxation.

The adjacent photo shows the, previously unpublished in a book, poem the author wrote during his college days. Many other poems were also written by the author which are related to Dar and many of them have been published in his other collections.

Hope you enjoy the read!