Scar  (Paperback, Soumen Roy)

The pangs of love can be bitter, and sweet. Days of wishing and longing for the loved one can take one for a rendezvous with the self, or else, it can also be self-detrimental. Soumen Roy is a consummate poet at heart, a wordsmith, an artist who loves to play with expression in his prose. Through Supriya’s journey of unrequited love, misunderstandings, wait, grief, episodes of battling her own mental demons, Soumen has unfurled the various facets of human life. It is passion that rules the heart, it is the excruciating sense of parting that devastates one from within. With descriptive stances that are new in the literary domain, Soumen can feel and write about his characters. I am quite sure Scar is going to heal: heal all kinds of malaise that are plaguing the world at this moment. After all, nothing can be sustained for long if it is not infused with the power of supreme love. – Sreetanwi Chakraborty