Amrita Jatra by Samar Deb

Samar Deb is renowned as a fiction writer, and justifiably so. But he writes poems as well and "Aalo Andhokar" (Light & Darkness) and "Amma Tera Munda" (Mom, your Son) is arguably his most acclaimed collection of poems. Samar Deb over the years consistently contributed to various little magazines, journals, etc. which together constitute a promising alternative mode of literary culture in Assam and Bengal that challenges the influence of big capital.  Most of his characters belong to the lower strata of existence. His fictions reinvigorate the received Bengali language with forceful idioms and expressions from the margins, which might often bombard the chaste taste of a Tagorean upper and middle class, still very much under the spell of a 19th-century Victorian sensibility.