Redemption of Faith

About the Book

Here is a book of 88 poems, written in about last eight months by the poet on various themes. These include his varied feelings, ideas, moods, realization and so on. Again, some of the poems read like a series of soliloquy of his mind. The topics are spread over arenas like economic, social, cultural, and emotional spheres. Issues from the national and international fields sometimes haunt him though, he rather consciously avoid speaking on political agenda. His political belief is rather unpronounced in his poems, although he has definitely some areas of conviction. His religious feelings denote that he has a pantheistic turn of mind and his humanistic faith is sometimes forcefully expressed. Certain poems show a similarity with Tagore’s belief in the God of Life. The form as well as language of the poems is quite simple; their contents are expressed in a matter-of-fact way, with little scope of ambiguity. It seems the poet does not believe much in experimentation. Like his first book from the Partridge, it is expected that this present volume will also be critically appreciated by the readers of poetry in the international literary arena.

About the Author

With a postgraduate degree in English literature and language from the University of Calcutta, Sailendra Nath Datta was employed as a gazette officer under the Government of West Bengal, a State in the Union of India. Later he served as a senior bureaucrat of the same government till his superannuation in 2010. Since his retirement as a Joint Secretary, he has been engaged as a member of the Editorial Board of a popular Bengali periodical, dealing with literary and cultural aspects. And at present, he is working as the Editor of the magazine, with a good rapport amongst the fellow members, and hugely trusted and entrusted by his Editor-in-chief. He has several books of poetry published both in English and Bengali to his credit. Amongst them, his last publication from Partridge, RESURRECTION OF PAIN, has a warm review by the discerning readers, especially by some noted national award-winning poets and other connoisseurs.