সমরেশ বসুর ছোটগল্পে অন্ত্যজ নারীরা
Volume-XIV, Issue-IV, JULY 2026
Volume-XIV, Issue-IV, July 2026 | ||
Received: 18.05.2026 | Accepted: 11.06.2026 | |||
Published Online: 31.07.2026 | Page No: | |||
DOI: 10.64031/pratidhwanitheecho.vol.14.issue.04W. | ||||
সমরেশ বসুর ছোটগল্পে অন্ত্যজ
নারীরা
ড. মহ. আসফাক আলম, সহকারী অধ্যাপক, বাংলা বিভাগ, সোনারপুর মহাবিদ্যালয়, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত | |
Marginalized Women in the Short Stories of Samaresh Basu Dr. Md Asfaque Alam, Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali, Sonarpur Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal, India | |
Samaresh Basu, writing also as Kalkut, entered Bengali literature with a
rare immediacy –emerging not through gradual evolution but as a fully-formed
novelist. His creative world is shaped by lived experience and a deep, almost
instinctive, engagement with life. Nowhere is this more vividly realized than
in his short stories, where stark social realism breathes with emotional
intensity.
His years at the Ichhapur Gun Factory placed him among laborers and the
dispossessed, allowing him to witness life at its most unadorned. He did not
merely observe; he absorbed. The rhythms of hardship, hunger and survival
became part of his inner landscape. As a result, his stories illuminate lives
often dismissed as insignificant, revealing instead their quiet resilience and
inherent dignity.
Samaresh Basu’s fiction does not turn away from darkness. Desire,
violence, deprivation, and moral ambiguity flow through his narratives, not as
distortions, but as essential elements of existence. Within this shadowed
terrain, however, flickers a persistent yearning for light, giving his work a
deeply human tension.
His women, in particular, stand out – figures shaped by struggle yet never
stripped of agency or depth. He portrays their sexuality with rare candor, free
from judgment or ornamentation. With subtle restraint, he captures the essence
of their inner lives, allowing their humanity to emerge unforced and luminous.
In this fusion of realism and sensitivity, Samaresh Basu crafts a
literature that is both grounded and evocative. His work ultimately becomes an
ode to human endurance, where even the most marginalized lives pulse with
meaning and grace.
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