Wednesday, August 6, 2014

My Autobiography

Few years ago, I didn't dream even that my poems and stories will reach to the every corner of this world. My poems and micro-stories were being published in Bengali in several magazines in Kolkata and in other towns of Bengal. But, suddenly due to my hectic working schedule, I had to take abruptly a long vacation from my writing in 2008. 2010 brought me back to writing world when I received an inspiring letter from the French writer Natalie Porte as a reward with a book for achieving 15th position in the French Yong Writer's competition.
Me with Bengali poet Samaresh Mukhopadhay
Since then, I'm writing in French and also in Spanish to make my beautiful Bengali and Indian cultural flavor to the entire world. Slowly the readers started commenting and sharing my poems to their friends who are publishers and editors. In 2011, I suddenly received an invitation through a social site for sending my Spanish poems to a writer Gladys Cepeta of Buenos Aires. She and the co-editor Diego Dramien Orello started publishing my poems since then in their international venture Lakberna.
Me with the Bengali poet Amit Kumar Biswas
They suddenly brought me to the limelight of huge number of readers who read only in Spanish. I continued to contribute there till its last edition of 2013. By that time, they spread my writing everywhere possible. Thanks to them, I was honored to be a part the famous magazine Ficciones y Realidades, Fuegos del Sur ( both from Buenos Aires), my poems were read by the poet Liliana Varela in Arinfo radio. Even the Spanish poet Alfredo Alencart knew me throgh them and publish some of my poems in the Salamanca University's cultural website. I became member of Spanish language writer in REMES and APOA, my interviews were also published in some magazines. But what made me speechless was when Gladys Cepeta asked me to write my autobiography to make special number on me in her new venture El Septimo Cielo en los Ojos. I felt really clueless how to start and from where to start as I'm really inexperienced in the writing arena. She inspired me almost everyday through mail that the Argentinian readers are waiting for reading my new poems every month whenever these are published in magazines.
So, I decided to write a true autobiography with all my failures and achievements, with all my virtues and vices. Many school-friends helped me with their photos, taking me to my childhood days' places. Fortunately, I was able to record some priceless guitar pieces played by my guitarist father and the the inclusion of them covered all my flaws in the autobiography. It was published last month there. I'm still overwhelmed day by day to get response from the reader who actually are not serious readers of literature. I still feel, it's too early to honor me in such a grand way. www.elsepyimocieloenlosojos.blogspot.com.ar