The book Unmasking Silence: Voices Heard and Unheard edited by Mukuta Borah is a collection of 25 academic essays contributed by prominent academicians and scholars across the country and abroad. The volume tries to look at several themes of silences in both Indian and Western Contexts. Right from deliberations of silence in her literary works by Arupa Patangia Kalit, to reflecting upon Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as a proto-zombie text by academician Amit Rahul Baishya, all the essays have attempted to explore distinctive silences that are found within the normative folds of ordinary reality in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexuality or class.