Special Arrangement Jahnavi Barua: Stories from the Brahmaputra.
‘I know the basic arc of the story before I begin to write...' says Jahnavi Barua as she speaks about her writing, her novel Rebirth and what the Brahmaputra means to her.
Jahnavi Barua is among the most lucid voices to have emerged in the Indian literary scene in recent times. She writes in English but the ethos around which her stories unfold brings the Brahmaputra to the reader in all its raging glory and untamed passion. The central characters in her story are from Assam and refuse to let go of visuals and fragrances of the land they hail from despite the compulsions of the new ‘home' they have migrated to.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,................
