small distinguished crowd novelists indian origin country pronoy chatterjee stands public famous authors jhumpa lahiri chitra banerjee divakaruni amitav ghosh enjoyed limelight famous writers pronoy write love writing write express deepest feelings humanity time extract busy daily life renowned professional authors pronoy tales lived lives tales bring back memories past long bring hopes future dream living memory pronoy's published author house capture complexities desire conflict small village colonial india read book story line attracted copy read india state turmoil violent revolution british rule ethnic riots widespread famine disease national scene eventually reflected remote villages living memory retreats local personal level revealing intricate psychology social stigma love adverse circumstances inescapable duality dreams disappointments surrounding sugar mill village alipur mahi river close-knit community families live harmony bloody revolts british colonialism hindu-muslim riots turn massacres famine epidemics disturbed village's tranquility young girl runu found missing home captive bose influential alipur thinks coincidence runu recognized named tushar brings back home bond forms time intimacy deepens circumstances runu's life filled uncertainty disappointment love hope enters arranged marriage dreams tushar remain fourteen years husband dies heart attack runu obsessed returning alipur reuniting tushar changed mill shut rampant ethnic discrimination robbed workers jobs runu finally finds tushar hard complicated journey connect world dismayed harmony youth promise happiness shattered runu left living memory asked pronoy motivated write period long lost nightmare answered initial motivation writing book glimpse childhood chapters illustrate environment grew till bihar sugar mill community writing developed fiction based facts necessarily happened place characters portrayed book incidents true happened started childhood chose specific period late onward wanted illustrate incidents independence movements horrors famine flood riots movies period ashani sanket distant thunder satyajit mind read books heard stories parents grand-parents period intrigued horrified thought blessed experienced days guess period helped identify understand vulnerabilities develop human nation pronoy's living memory reflect days struggles pains earlier generation make lives forward read book separate note asked pronoy question pronoy-da english mother tongue write english feel express english reach wider readership pronoy-da answered stated write bengali type bengali time practice writing page book longhand revising rewriting extremely tedious patience typing english making revisions editing technically simple microsoft words reason wrote english living memory major online stores amazon living memory publisher directly authorhouse read book send comments site 