Contents: Preface. 1. Mamoni Raisom Goswami: The insistent pattern/D K Baruah. 2. Ineffable mystery/Hiren Gohain. 3. Indira Goswami and her novels/Prafulla Kotoky. 4. A foreword by Amrita Pritam to the English translation of Indira Goswami s autobiography: an unfinished autobiography. 5. Line Khowa Howda: Way of perceiving the world through sensuous imagery/Ashok Bhagawati. 6. The worm-eaten Howdah of a Tusker/Gobinda Prasad Sarma. 7. Indira Goswami and her novel: Shadow of the dark God/Kamala Ratnam. 8. The Touch of a magical pen/Malaya Khaund. 9. Through the eyes of critics. 10. Introduction to the novel: a saga of South Kamrup. 11. Two excerpts from her novel une khowa Howda and saga of South Kamrup. 12. Chronicle of a great woman. 13. The offspring. 14. Dwarka and his Gun. Index.