Dhoomil Samagra : Vols. 1-3

DhumilS Poetry Expresses What Prose Writers Fail To Reach Clear Conclusions. What He Calls A Statement IsnT The Blunt Judgment Of A Truth-Conscious Orator; ItS An Attempt To Grasp The Face Of Things That Eludes Established And Self-Contained Conventions Of Perception. His Poetry Is More The Poetry Of A Constantly Concerned Person Than A Poet. ThatS Why It Touches Us Where The Elegant Works Of Poetic Masters Fail To Reach. His Creative Struggle Reaches Those Word Schemes And Meanings That A Society That Considers Intellectual And Emotional Laziness To Be Culture And Civilization Calls Slang, Abuse, And So On. Perhaps ThatS Why, In His Poetic Life, He WasnT A Systematic Poet. The Expanse Of His Concern Was Rugged And Rugged, Stretching From Deep Within, Where Language And Words Sprout, To Far Beyond, As If Trampling The Landscape In Its Restlessness To Deliver The Perfect Word. Perhaps This Is Why Our Understanding And Consciousness Repeatedly Fall Short In Encompassing His Seemingly Limited World Of Works. It Repeatedly Feels As If We HavenT Fully Grasped The True Dhumil. This Comprehensive Presentation Of His Works Is A Proposal To Put Dhumil Together And Try To Understand Him Again, From Beginning To End. ItS Possible That Much Remains Undisclosed And May Be Revealed In The Future, But WhatS Contained In These Three Volumes Is Enough To Take Us To All Corners Of Dhumil. This First Volume Contains His Poems, Including Those From His Three Published Collections, As Well As Those That HavenT Reached Readers In Book Form. These Poems Are No Less Numerous Than Those Published In Sansad Se Sadak Tak, Kal Sunna Mujhe, And Sudama Pandey Ka Prajatantra. Volume 2: This Second Volume Of DhumilS Entire Work Includes His Songs, Stories, Short Stories, Plays, Essays, Critical Commentaries, Translations, And More. Titled Dastak, It Also Includes Poetic Passages Found In His Papers, Which Offer Insights Into His Thinking, Composition, And Response To His Surroundings, Society, And Time. He Once Wrote, When I Ride A Bicycle, My Mind Moves Like The Spokes Of A Bicycle. He Was Essentially A Restless Poet, On The Streets, Sidewalks, At Tea Shops, And In Fields And Barns. Everywhere, He Would Find Lines Pointing To A Greater Truth, Which He Would Write Down On Any Piece Of Paper Available At The Time. This Reveals How Deeply His Being Was A Creator Bound By A Moral Responsibility. He Was Not A Poet Who Would Simply Release A Single Poem To The Market And Be Done With It. It Was His Connection To The Multifaceted Truths Of Life And Time That Constantly Held Him In Its Grip. This Happens With Every True Writer. ThatS Why He Would Alter His Published And Acclaimed Poems. In Some Of His Manuscripts, He Has Written A Couple Of Lines On A Piece Of Paper, And In Others, Three Or Four Lines That Appear To Be Complete Poems In Themselves, But He May Have Wanted To Pursue Them Further But CouldnT. His Writing Career Began With Songs, And Continued Until 1960-61. Only A Few Songs Have Been Published, But The Sheer Number Of Songs He Wrote Is So Numerous That A Collection Could Have Been Published. This Volume Also Includes His Songs. An Attempt Has Been Made To Arrange His Essays And Critical Commentaries, From Beginning To End, In Chronological Order. Some Of Them Have Been Formally Published, Some Not. His Co-Translation Of The Popular Bengali Poet Sukanta BhattacharyaS Poetry Collection, Chhadpatra, Titled Parapatra, Is Also Included. Volume 3: Reading The Material Compiled In This Third Volume Of Dhumil Samagri Is Crucial To Understanding Dhumil. It Contains His Diaries And Letters. The Diaries Reveal His Political, Social, And Cultural Involvements. At Times, It Appears That A Routine Continues For Days, But Within That, One Also Senses His Intense Activism. A Page From February 1969 Reads: I Am Beginning To Feel That Poetry Offers Nothing To A Person Except The Tension That Builds Between Two Faces During Conversation. These Days, The Danger Has Increased That Most People Are Mistaking Poetry For A Miracle. As Difficult As It Is To Be At Ease In This Situation, The Danger Of Becoming Ordinary Is Equally, If Not Even Greater. A Little Further On Are Some Lines That Resemble Poetry: The Critic/Sniffs Out A Word From Your Poem/And/Runs Straight To The Vaults/In The Direction Of His Nose. He Would Jot Down His Reactions And Thoughts In His Diary In This Manner. ItS Clear That He Wrote This Diary Not As A Literary Form, But To Express His Emotional And Ideological Anxieties. This Suggests That At Times His Thought Process Seemed To Flow Like An Essay, While At Other Times He Could Convey His Entire Message In Just A Sentence Or Two. Unlike His Poems And Printed Works, He DidnT Preserve His Letters With Great Care. A Total Of 61 Letters Were Found In The Manuscripts, Which Are Reproduced Here. Like His Diary, These Contain Brief Thoughts On Contemporary Topics.