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Mamoni Raisom Goswami is unique in literature for providing a convincing perspective on the overall life of women and the loneliness of Indian widows. Her inimitable mind and wisdom accurately painted a new consciousness and suffering about women in literature. Many works have been done on her books, but they are not sufficient. Namrata Pathak is a contemplative reader of literature. She has earned a reputation in the world of poet and Dibyajyoti Sarma in translation. They have edited the book Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond. Indira Goswami’s pen name is Mamoni Raisom Goswami.
The book contains selected short stories and some partial translations of novels by Mamoni Raisom and several research papers. Mamoni Raisom's personal letters, critics' comments, translations of her diary, interviews, etc. have served as helpful points for readers in understanding her landscape. In the foreword to the book, Sukrita Paul Kumar and Chandana Das have mentioned that all languages ??have their own social and cultural trends and creative sense. The holder and carrier of language and culture capture that sense and present it in literature. They firmly convince the reader why they chose the path of liberation by digging a new path in alongside existing beliefs and practices. The plan and importance of this book underlying this view.
The introduction of the book, which is rich in understanding and theory, gives an opportunity to understand Mamoni Raisom as a whole and to explain the overall suffering, mental anguish, inequality of marginalized women and the gender-based exploitation of women. It contains precise translations of Raisom’s selected stories and novels. Dibyajyoti Sarma, Gayatri Bhattacharya, Pradip Acharya, Anindita Kar, Stuti Goswami, Jahanu Bhardwaz, Daisy Barman and Jyotirmoy Pradhani have translated some prominent segments of her works. The translations will help readers other than Assamese to understand Raisom’s works. As an Assamese reader, I think it is a pride to be able to read Raisom in English translation and to understand the struggle with the nuance of original language. There are several notable translations in this book, one of which is the English translation of Hiren Gohain's paper by Jyotirmoy Pradhani. In this paper, Gohain does not comment on the overall literary work of Mamoni Raisom but contributes to understanding how and why Mamoni Raisom is a strong writer of the present time, i.e the twentieth century. Aruni Kashyap in his paper ‘Why Is Indira Goswami Great?’ said ‘ Mamoni Raisom Goswami brought the worlds outside Assam to the realm of Assamese literature, the way Bhupen Hazarika made us dream about the grave of Mark Twain, the banks of Missippi and Paris and Austria with his songs’. Nandita Basu’s ‘The Notion of Love in Indira Goswami Writings’, Manbinda Kaur’s ‘ Perception of Places and Locations in Indira Goswami’s Select Novel’, Sanghamitra Dey’s ‘Of Spaces and Margins: Reading Gender and Domesticity in the Moth Eaten Howdah of the Tusker’, Bhiba S. Chauhan’s ‘The Divine and the Mundane Ritual Sacrifice, Blood and Feminine Principle’, Preetinicha Barman and Dwijen Sharma’s ‘Alternative Masculinities in Indira Goswami’s Fiction’, Arup Sarma’s ‘ Patriarchy and Resistence in Indira Goswami’s Short Story ‘The Offspring’, Nizara Hazarika’s ‘Contesting Margins and Gendered Subalternity Women in Indira Goswami and Mahasweta Devi’s Short Stories’ and Sabreen Ahmed’s ‘Trauma Therepy: A Study of Depression Narrative in Indira Goswami’s Autobiographical Writings’ are some insightful papers which will help readers to discover the undiscovered aspects of Mamoni Raisom’s literature. In addition to the above mentioned papers, the collection includes several readable articles and interviews which will give every reader a strong conviction to get to know Mamoni Raisom in a new way. Even the Assamese readers will be benefitted as because this book is an extension of Raisom’s thought of where we Assamese readers left off.
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