The Silent Cry

As events crowd around us at an incredible pace, the individual's becomes a lost, anonymous face in the melee. His voice is choked before it can utter 9ts first, incredulous birth-cry, his mind- if at all he is left with one-spins giddily on the centrifuge of history. What is thrown out is silence, the lone oasis left throbbing in this barrenness. The Silent Cry gathers glimpses from the world around us, to retrieve what is meaningful into that oasis of silence. It does not volunteer for Causes, those hungry hordes stalking the arid plains. It peers out from the edges of that primeval silence and gives its first cry.

Saumitra Chakravarty, an alumni of Calcutta University, is currently Professor and Head of the Department of English in a prestigious College in Bangalore. A gold medalist in M.A. from Calcutta, she did her Ph.D on Modern British Fiction from the same University She has presented research papers at numerous National and International Seminars and Workshops. She gives regular talks on AL Pangalate the writes book reviews and articles for journals and newspapers. She has co-authored a book of critical essays on the self in literature and is presently working on translations of short stories by women.

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