6th Meeting of Boi-Soi Samiti

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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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