I devoured the story-a romance between a 23-year-old Romanian student of Hindu theology and Sanskrit and a 16-year-old Bengali girl, a poet-over the course of two days.
In the teakwood bookshelf of our old house in North Kolkata, next to the 27 volumes of the formidable Rabindra Rachanabali, whose composure is rarely disturbed, I chanced upon a Bengali novel entitled Na Hanyate (1974), written by the Bengali author and scholar Maitreyi Devi. The complete essay will appear in the print edition of Papercuts Vol 16: Heroes and Villains. Read more by this writer Read more from this section Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of post-1945 English literature at California State University, Sacramento. In the past, she has assisted the editors of the journal, Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism. Her critical and scholarly writings can be found in Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, South Asian Review, Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus, Post Script, and Latinos and Narrative Media.
She is also a researcher, specializing in narrative theories–-that is, the systematic study of the aesthetic experiences offered by stories across media–-and 20th-/21st- century experimental literary forms. Her poems and short stories have appeared in venues such as The Hindu BLink, Aaduna, Poydras Review, Unsplendid, Himal Southasian, and Muse India. She is the author of the novel, Open Couplets (2017), published by Yoda Press in India. Torsa Ghosal is the Associate Editor of Papercuts magazine.
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