This is the coverpage of an Assamese short story collection DANGSHAN. The stories are based on HIV?/AIDS. I have edited the book.
This is the first Assamese short story collection on HIV/AIDS and I have no information whether such collection was being published in other languages.
In my childhood days I saw some Assamese plays where the main protagonists were some TB patients. Those characters influenced the spectators. One day I thought, HIV/AIDS is a very common social issue which may influence the creative persons. I dialed few numbers and I talked to some writers. Most of them were not aware about the social importance of the subject. Later I talked to some less famous writers, some of them has already written on that subject and some expressed their willingness to write for this innovative project. At last the book came out from the publication house PURBANCHAN PRAKASH. The owner of that farm is Mr Nabin Baruah, a leading writer of Assam, though he has not contributed to this collection.
The collection was well received by readers.
The cover page of the book has created sensation among sensitive persons. A famous Assamese poet Pranab Kumar Barman has praised the cover in a radio talk show and he asked me to design a cover page for his to be published novel. Really it is a great honour for me.
