Restless Waters of the Ichhamati

Restless Waters of the Ichhamati is a celebration of flora and fauna, particularly of the profusion of commonly found plantife that flourishes in most regions of Bengal. The gaze of a slow-moving attentive river-farer brings into view glimpses of vibrant plantife, traces of human habitation and changes of sky and water in the course of seasons. These are signs, evoking the flow of time in which generations unknown haveived and those unborn willive along the Ichhamati’s banks as it wends its way through Jessore district towards the Bay of Bengal. Born of this tension between the ephemeral and the forever, the novel’s own riverine course dispenses with chapter breaks—a writer’s decision that the translation follows.