6th Session of Boi-Soi Samiti
Time
flies in such a way that we were sitting on the 6th Book-Talk which
was held on 30th Jan at 2pm in Rabindra Neer. This session was
indeed special for its diversity in the book talk.
On
the opening ceremony, Ankita Samanta, the member of Boi-Soi Book club gave us,
the book wormers, a warm welcome and made us aware that today’s book talk was
different as for the first time a translated version of book was going to be
presented in front of us. Also, today we would be enlightened with a religious
text.
The
very first book talk was given by Basanti Bera, a student of Computer
Science (H) of 3rd Year on the Book named “Blood Sister”
written by Kim Yideum. IT was exciting as we learnt that it was a Korean
novel which had been translated into English. The book dealt with systemic
sexism, gendered violence, and social pressure in South Korea. The protagonist
of the story is Jeong Yeoul, a young Korean college student and the whole story
is about her journey from her silence to voice. Her presentation was so well
and heart gripping that it gave us a knock to our reader minds to pick the book
up and read it at least once.
The
second talk or I would rather like to say dissemination of our Hindu Shastras,
and ‘Dharma’ gave us a stir throughout our whole body. Soujanya Maiti
from English Department of 1st Year gave a phenomenal talk on the
book named “Gita Prasanga”. We all knew telling of Gita more or less but
this was the first time we saw Gita through her eyes. The way she presented
each saying of Gita left the listeners speechless. It was a philosophical
insight to our lives throughout the session. We were really in awe how easily
she mapped us out to the path of divinity and enlightenment.
The
Question – Answer session was engaging. Members of the book club questioned our
speakers of the day. It was very heart warming that our respected Principal
Madam Dr. Jayashree Laha attended the book talk. She was also overwhelmed by
the book talks and wished her best to the participants.
Over-all
it was a fruitful and enlightening book talk of the season.
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