Digantadighir by Seema Gangyopadhyay [Hardcover]

"The town becomes disoriented in the city's clutches. Near Gopalpur House by the Kolkata airport, many indigenous people live. They cultivate rice on the lost lands within the airport. Once the rice harvest is over, they spend their days in a state of intoxication. After her marriage, Seema's household is established here. So, this book is filled with the endless flights of airplanes, with the sky seemingly collapsing with sound at every moment. One day it happens, the plane flies away, leaving behind the echoes of its sound. Seema has never been able to overcome the harsh void of her only child Dighi's departure. She has written the diary of a mother in fragments. She has rushed to the homes of empathetic people. Gradually, she has had to return to the routine cycles of daily life. A charitable trust, an eye hospital, a health camp, a library, and several other projects for marginalized people have been established in Dighi's name. Dighi's spirit has not allowed the helpless to fade into a faded smile. From the silent procession of death in the neighboring Santhal community to the observation stories of the short-lived cats' lives, this book is a relentless narrative of existence, overcoming the shadow of the death of marginalized people. The horizon of the detailed description of ever-increasing darkness thus remains bound to the horizon named Dighi."