Myth, reality and universal concerns headline Rashmi Narzary’s ‘The Lost Soul of the Joukhoorei’

BRINGING together a blend of myth and reality, award-winning author Rashmi Narzary's says her latest book — ‘The Lost Soul of the Joukhoorei’ — underscores universal concerns along with the “joys of befriending and the pains of letting go”.

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Narzary, who hails from the Bodo community, has narrated many a story of yore of the land with creative sensibility and her recent book, too, brings to the fore myths, folklore and legends drawn from lost and forgotten tales.

The only Assamese writer to be invited by the Sahitya Akademi as a house guest recently to the Rashtrapati Bhawan, Narzary, told PTI that 'The Lost Soul of the Joukhoorei’ was born out of her ‘crazy imagination and I dole out magic and suspense, too, along with legends of the land’. Eminent lyricist and poet Gulzar has mentioned in the book's blurb, “If there is a Cosmos within Cosmos, a Universe within a Universe, it's in the story-telling by Rashmi Narzary. She takes you across infinite time. The book ends. The story does not.”