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Across Borders Within Hearts by Benoy Ranjan Samanta explores belonging, migration, memory, and love across cultures in a lyrical, deeply human journey.
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| ISBN | 9789349203471 |
| Pages | 266 |
Across Borders Within Hearts by Benoy Ranjan Samanta is a lyrical meditation on belonging in a world shaped by crossings—of place, of language, of memory. Through an intimate weave of lives and landscapes, the book explores what it means to carry home within oneself, even as the coordinates of identity keep shifting. At its core is the quiet drama of human connection: how people reach for one another across distances that are geographic, cultural, and emotional; how love and loss echo differently in unfamiliar languages; and how translation—of words, of selves, of histories—becomes an act of survival and renewal. With tenderness and intellectual grace, Samanta charts the fragile bridges we build between worlds, reminding us that borders may divide maps, but not the imagination—and not the heart’s stubborn ability to recognize itself in another.
Benoy Ranjan Samanta was born in Kolkata in 1947. He attended four different schools, including 2.5 years at Sriniketan under Visva-Bharati University, before finishing high school in 1963. He studied mechanical engineering at the Regional Engineering College (now NIT) in Durgapur and graduated in 1968. Right after graduation, he went to the United States for Graduate studies, attending Howard University in Washington D.C., and graduating in 1971. He also studied nuclear engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He worked on the development of the rapid transit railway (metro) system in Washington D.C. In 1978, he moved to Southern California. He worked on various fossilfueled and nuclear power-generating projects before being sent on an engineering assignment to Saudi Arabia to help develop the industrial city of Yanbu Al-Sinaiyah on the Red Sea coast. He stayed there for eighteen years. He believes that eighteen years in Arabia and travelling to many countries, both within and outside Arabia, have given him valuable experiences and enriched his life through various cultures, faiths, and people. Over the last 56 years, he has returned to his home in Kolkata more than 40 times. He is retired now and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Lolita.
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