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2/17/20

NASHTIKATAR BAIRY BY ASOKE MITRA






NASHTIKATAR BAIRY BY ASOKE MITRA



                                                 

1/5/20

CHOWRANGEE BY SHANKAR






   CHOWRANGEE BY SHANKAR




                                                             

AMI VIVEKANANDA BOLCHI BY SHANKAR





AMI VIVEKANANDA BOLCHI BY SHANKAR


                                   

9/19/11

MOHAMMAD HABIBUR RAHAMAN

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Muhammad Habibur Rahman (Bangla:মুহাম্মদ হাবিবুর রহমান) is a former chief justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court. He was the chief adviser of the 1996 caretaker government which oversaw the Seventh parliamentary elections in Bangladesh.
He was educated in Kolkata, Dhaka, Oxford and London. He attended Dhaka University and was an activist in the Bengali Language Movement.[citation needed] He is a Fellow of Bangla Academy and Asiatic Society of Bangladesh; Honourary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford; and also Honourary Bencher of Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London.
He is author of seventy books in Bangla on law, language, literature, poetry and religion and five books in English, including two books of verses.



AKJON BANGALIR ATTOSOMALOCHONA

8/26/11

KEDERNATH PANDEY(RAHUL SANKRITYAN)


He was born Kedarnath Pandey on 9 April, 1893 to a Bhumihar Brahmin family in Azamgarh district, in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. His father, Govardhan Pandey, was a religious-minded farmer, a typical profession of Bhumihars, from the village Kanaila of Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh. His mother, Kulawanti, used to stay with her parents at the village of Pandaha, where Kedar was born. He was the eldest of four brothers. He spent part of his childhood in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states of India. As his mother died at the age of twenty-eight and his father at the age of forty-five, he was brought up by his grandmother. His earliest memories as recorded by him were of the terrible famine in 1897. At age 9, he ran away from home in order to see the world, but later returned.
Sankrityayan only ever received formal schooling at a local primary school, though he later studied and mastered numerous languages independently, as well as learned photography


His travels took him to different parts of India, including Ladakh, Kinnaur, and Kashmir. He also covered several other countries including Nepal, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Iran, China, and the former Soviet Union. He spent some years of his life in the "Parsa Gadh" village of Saran District in Bihar.The entry gate of that village is named as "Rahul Gate". While traveling, he mostly used surface transport, and he went to certain countries clandestinely, like Tibet where he went disguised as a Buddhist monk. He made several trips to Tibet and brought from there valuable manuscripts of Pali and Sanskrit, several books and paintings. Most of these formed a part of the libraries of Vikramshila and Nalanda Universities and were taken to Tibet by fleeing Buddhist monks during 12th century and onwards when the invading Muslim armies had destroyed these universities. Some accounts state that Rahul Sankrityayan employed twenty-two mules to bring back the loads of part of these materials, from Tibet to India.
In honour of him, Patna Museum, Patna, has a special section, where a number of these and other items have been displayed.


In Hindi

Novels
  • Baisvin Sadi - 1923
  • Jine ke Liye - 1940
  • Simha Senapathi - 1944
  • Jai Yaudheya - 1944
  • Bhago Nahin, Duniya ko Badlo - 1944
  • Madhur Svapna - 1949
  • Rajasthani Ranivas - 1953
  • Vismrit Yatri - 1954
  • Divodas - 1960
  • Vismriti Ke Garbh Me
  • Kinner Desh
Short Stories
  • Satmi ke Bachche - 1935
  • Volga Se Ganga - 1944
  • Bahurangi Madhupuri - 1953
  • Kanaila ki Katha - 1955-56
Autobiography
  • Meri Jivan Yatra I - 1944
  • Meri Jivan Yatra II - 1950
  • Meri Jivan Yatra III, IV, V - published posthumously
Biography
  • Sardar Prithvi Singh - 1955
  • Naye Bharat ke Naye Neta (2 volumes) - 1942
  • Bachpan ki Smritiyan - 1953
  • Atit se Vartaman (Vol I) - 1953
  • Stalin - 1954
  • Lenin - 1954
  • Karl Marx - 1954
  • Mao-Tse-Tung - 1954
  • Ghumakkar Swami - 1956
  • Mere Asahayog ke Sathi - 1956
  • Jinka Main Kritajna - 1956
  • Vir Chandrasingh Garhwali - 1956
  • Simhala Ghumakkar Jaivardhan - 1960
  • Kaptan Lal - 1961
  • Simhal ke Vir Purush - 1961
  • Mahamanav Budha - 1956
Some of his other books are:-
  • Mansik Gulami
  • Rhigvedic Arya
  • Ghumakkar Shastra
  • Kinnar desh mein
  • Darshan Digdarshan
  • Dakkhini Hindi ka Vyaakaran
  • Puratatv Nibandhawali
  • Manava Samaj

In Bhojpuri

  • Teen Natak - 1942
  • Panch Natak - 1942

 In Nepali (Translation)

  • Bauddhadharnma Darshan - 1984

 Related to Tibetan

  • Tibbati Bal-Siksha - 1933
  • Pathavali (Vol. 1,2 & 3) - 1933
  • Tibbati Vyakaran (Tibetan Grammar) - 1933
  • Tibbat May Budh Dharm-1948
  • Lhasa ki or




AMAR JIBON JATRA

                                                                              






















VOLGA TEKHEY GANGA


                                                                                    

PURNENDU POTRI

Purnendu Patri was born in 2 February 1933 in Howrah in West Bengal. He was the son of Pulinbihari Patri and Nirmola Debi.In 1949 he admitted Indian art collage as a student of commercial art but he could not complete his study.He was a active member of Communist Party. In 1951 his first poetry book Ek Muttho Rode was published. Shobder Bichhana,Tumi Eley Shurjodoy Hoy, ami e Kotch ami e Debojani, Kathopokathan are his popular poetry books.He has wrote some books on kolkata.He is not only a writer also known as an illustrator and film maker. Streer Patra is considered his best film.Chhera Tamsuk, Malancha, Pata Chitra are his well known film. He was also a noted short-story writer and a critic. One of his story collection is known as 'Staliner Raaa' and a book on Rabindranath is titled 'Amar Rabindranath'.
He was died in 19th march 1997.
Among his books are-:
        Ek Muttho Rode (1951)
  • Shobder Bichhana (1972)
  • Tumi Eley Shurjodoy Hoy (1976)
  • Kathopokothan (5 volumes of poetry
Filmography
Direction:
  • Khirer Putul (1982)
  • Choto Bokulpurer Jatri (1981)
  • Geeta Govindam (1981)
  • Kalighat (1981)
  • Malancha (1979)
  • Pata Chitra (1977)
  • Abanindranath (1976)
  • Chhera Tamsuk (1974)
  • Streer Patra (1972: English Title: Letter from the Wife)
  • Swapna Niye (1966)
Screenplay:
  • Streer Patra (1972)
PURANO KOLKATAR KOTHACHITRA


                                                                                          

8/23/11

KALIPROSHONNO SINGHA

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Kaliprasanna Singha: (23 February 1841 - 24 July 1870) is remembered for his two immortal contributions to Bengali literature viz. translation of Mahabharata, the largest epic, and his book Hutom Pyanchar Naksha. He is also remembered as a philanthropist who helped several people and movements in distress.
Kaliprasanna was admitted to Hindu College, presently known as Presidency College. In 1857 he left College. He continued his education in English, Bengali and Sanskrit at home. He enhanced his English knowledge under the guidance of an European teacher Mr.Kirkpatrick. He had contribution in different fields as an author, editor, a publisher, a philanthropist, a social worker, and a great patron of art, literature and culture.
Other than his contribution to literature, Kaliprasanna had immense contribution to Bengali theatre too. Kaliprasanna made He established the Vidyotsahini Sabha(a platform for those interested in education) at the age of 14. It was established most probably in 1855. Eminent gentlemen like Krishnadas Pal, Acharya Krishna Kamal Bhattacharya, Peari Chand Mitra, and Radhanath Sikdar were associated with it. Vidyotsahini Sabha was mainly responsible for promoting Hindu theatre, and Bidyotsahini Mancha was set up in 1857 at Kaliprasanna's home. The members of this group performed "Shakuntala" in 1857. According to an witness " The performance of 'Sakuntala' at Simla was, however a faliure, This is not to be wondered at; for Sakuntala being a masterpiece of dramatic genius, requires versatile and consummate talent for its representation, rarely to be met with in this country." Later on Kaliprasanna enacted the play "Benisanhar", which received a warm response and the performance was praised in Samvad Prabhakar. Young Kaliprasanna played the role of Bhanumati, a female character. Later in 1857 only, Kaliprasanna himself wrote the play "Vikramorvashi" based on the Sanskrit composition of Kalidas. Kaliprasanna played the role of Pururava while eminent personalities like Womesh Chandra Bonerjee also participated in the play. The drama was highly eulogised including the performance of Kaliprasanna as actor. Through Vidyotsahini Sabha he felicitated Michael Madhusudan Dutt for introducing blank verse in Bengali poetry. Kaliprasanna awarded Michael Madhusudan with a certificate and a silver peg.
Kaliprasanna also wrote several other plays like Babu (1854), Sabitri Satyaban (1858), Malati Madhab (1856)
He also edited/published several magazines like Vidyotsahini Patrika, Paridarshak, Sarvatattwa Prakashika, Bibidhartha Samgraha etc. Paridarshak was a Benagli daily newspaper started by Jaganmohan Tarkalankar and Madangopal Goswami. For improvement of the newspaper, Kaliprasanna took over editorship of the newspaper. The quality of the newspaper was ahead of its times and Kristo Das Pal wrote, "He also started a first class vernacular daily newspaper, the like of which we have not yet seen." Bibidhartho Samgraha was first edited by Babu Rajendralal Mitra, the well known native gentleman. After him that magazine had been revived under the auspices of Kaliprasanna Singha. In 1862 the most acclaimed "Hutom Panchar Noksha" had been published. In this book he criticised the activities of the then middle class societies in a humorous manner under the pseudonym "Hutom Pyancha".
He provided financial assistance to magazines like Tattabodhini Patrika, Somprakash, Mookerjee's Magazine, Bengalee, Doorbin and Hindu Patriot.
Under his editorship, the Mahabharata was translated to Bengali in prose form, which is still read and published widely. The whole project was supervised by Vidyasagar. The translation was completed in a house named "Sarswatashram" at Baranagar in North Kolkata. Kaliprasanna distributed Mahabharata without taking any cost. Kaliprasanna compromised his several mahals(owned lands)to bear the expenses. He dedicated his Mahabharata to Queen Victoria.
He also translated "Bhagavad Gita" the Hindu sacred scripture, which was published posthumously.
He had a contribution to Bengali theatre as well. His famous plays include "Vikramorvashi", "SabitriSatyaban", "MalatiMadhav" and "Babu". He also established the Vidyotsahini theatre and also acted in the play "Vikramaorvashi".
Under his editorship, the Mahabharata was translated to Bengali in prose form, which is still read and published widely. The whole project was supervised by Vidyasagar. The translation was completed in a house named "Sarswatashram" at Baranagar in North Kolkata. Kaliprasanna distributed Mahabharata without taking any cost. Kaliprasanna compromised his several mahals(owned lands)to bear the expenses. He dedicated his Mahabharata to Queen Victoria.
He also translated "Bhagavad Gita" the Hindu sacred scripture, which was published posthumously.
He had a contribution to Bengali theatre as well. His famous plays include "Vikramorvashi", "SabitriSatyaban", "MalatiMadhav" and "Babu". He also established the Vidyotsahini theatre and also acted in the play "Vikramaorvashi".
He died on 24 July 1870 at the age of 30, leaving behind his huge contributions. Kaliprasanna's extravagant ways most of which was dedicated to the welfare of the society however had toll on him in his last days. It was said that the distribution of several copies of Mahabharata alone cost him a huge sum of two and a half lakhs of rupees in those days. It has been also learnt, that though a major income of the zamindari family came from the revebnnue paid by peasants, Kaliprasanna thoughbeing a zamindar, fought for the cause of the peasants and freed several peasants from the revenue burden. In his last days, he was learnt to run into huge debts, and the large estates in Orissa and Bengal Club in Kolkata were sold. He was also deceived by friends and relatives.
Kaliprasanna died before having any issue. After his death, his wife adopted Bijay Chandra Singha, who took over the Hindu Patriot. After his death Krishnadas Pal wrote "But beneath the troubled waters of youth there was a silvery current of geniality, generosity, good-fellowship and high mindedness, which few could behold without admiring. With all his faults Kaliprasunno was a brilliant character and we cannot adequately express our regret that a career begun under such glowing promises should have come to such an abrupt and unfortunate close."


HUTOM PACHAR NOKSA

                                     
                                                                                             

8/20/11

DR.SUNITIKUMAR CHATTOPADYA

Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1890-1977)  linguist, educationist, litterateur, was born on 26 October, 1890 at Shivpur in Howrah, son of Haridas Chattopadhyay. Suniti Kumar was a meritorious student, and passed the Entrance (1907) from Motilal Free School, ranking sixth, and the FA from Scottish Church College, standing third. In both the BA Honours in English (1911) and MA (1913) examinations he stood first. For his performance in sanskrit, he got the premchand roychand studentship and the Jubilee Research Award. He did his diploma in Phonetics (1909) and DLitt (1921) from London University on an Indian government scholarship. In London, he studied Phonology, Indo-European Linguistics, Prakrit, Persian, old Irish, Gothic and other languages. He then went to Paris and did research at the Sorbonne in Indo-Aryan, Slav and Indo-European Linguistics, Greek and Latin. Returning to India in 1922, he joined Calcutta University as professor. After retirement he was made Professor Emeritus and, in 1963, National Professor.
Suniti Kumar accompanied rabindranath tagore to Malaya, Sumatra, Java, and Bali, where he delivered lectures on Indian art and culture. He represented Calcutta University at the second session of the International Conference on Phonetic Sciences in London and took part in conferences on linguistics in Asia, America, Australia and Africa. As a visiting professor he delivered lectures at both Indian and foreign universities

He presided over the national language panel of the All-India Hindi Conference in Karachi. He was Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly (1952-58) and President (1969) of the Sahitya Academy.
Among his important publications on both language and literature are the origin and development of the bengali language, Bengali Phonetic Reader, Bangla Bhasatattver Bhumika (Introduction to Bangla Linguistics), Bharater Bhasa O Bhasa Samasya (Language and Language Problem of India), Jati Sangskrti Sahitya (Nation, Culture, Literature), Sangskrti Ki (What is Culture), Rabindra Sangame (Towards Unity with Raindranath), Pashchimer Yatri (Traveller to the West), Europe Bhraman (Travels in Europe), Dvipamay Bharat (India of Many Islands), etc. He was awarded the title of Bhasacharya by Rabindranath Tagore, Sahitya Vachaspati (1948) by Allahabad Hindi Literary Conference and Padmabibhusan (1948) by the Government of India. Suniti Kumar died on 29 May 1977 in Calcutta. [Badiuzzaman]



BANGLA VASHA PROSONGE


                                                                                    

8/16/11

PRABIR GOSH



Born on 1st March 1945, Prabir spent his early childhood in railway towns of Kharagpur and Adra. Growing up with god-fearing parents in this multicultural township, Prabir had keen interest in gods and godmen. As a child he spent hours with these religious people. As a result, he learnt magic and all the other tricks these godmen practiced, at a very young age.
Teacher Subhendu Roy instilled in him, the interest in sociology and in the power of political motivation behind all human endeavours. He grew up have keen interest in politics and developed excellent oratorical skill.
In his college days, he started writing in premier Bengali magazines and dailies. An avid reader, his interests include anthropology, archeology, history, psychology, sociology and of course, politics. As a result, his understanding of the human mind as an individual and the social human being as a species is vast. With this knowledge of the human mind, his keen sense of politics gives him an insight and a rare understanding of all human problems.
He has also completed four collection of series meant for young readers who wish to grew up. Topics like psychology, history, sociology and politics are discussed by way of story-telling in such lucid language that one never loses interest. And the special point of view, which is the trademark of Prabir, never fails to hit the readers’.
Aware of party programmes of all political parties , and their failures and effectiveness, he realized the importance of “Rationalism” as a school of thought which should be systematically developed . Once the Rationalists’ Association was established, he had to face severe animosity from various groups of spirituals and godmen. An immensely courageous and upright person, he faces all attacks , with the help of his keen intellect, understanding and the worldwide network of support and goodwill which he enjoys.

Prabir Ghosh is the 66-years-old General Secretary of the Science and Rationalists’ Association of India and the scourge of every guru, godman, fakir, faith-healer and fat swami for a hundred miles of his home in Calcutta. He is the author of 13 Bengali-language best sellers, among them such classics as ‘Nothing Supernatural’ and ‘Why I Don’t Believe In God’. Despite nine assassination attempts, including a hit-and-run attack by a man on an Enfield motorbike that left Ghosh with four broken ribs, he has waged a lifelong campaign to expose Indian gurus for what he believes they are: charlatans. ‘There was a time when there were a lot of godmen in Kolkata,’ says Ghosh with a schoolboy grin. ‘Not any more.’



ALOUKIK NOI LOUKIK


                                                                                     
    
                                                                                            

SUKUMAR SEN



(1900-1992)Sen was born in 1900. Their original home was at Gotan,under Raina P.S.near Shyamsundar in the district of Bardhaman. He got his education from Burdwan Municipal High School and got divisional scholarship in Matriculation examination in 1917. He passed F.A. from Burdwan Raj College then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, and earned his first class honours mark in Sanskrit. Then he studied comparative philology in Kolkata in which he got highest record marks. Linguist Suniti Kumar Chatterji and Taraporewala were his teachers there. Thereafter he received the prestigious Premchand Roychand Scholarship and PhD degree. The London Asiatic Society honoured him with a gold medal. He published numerous important and valuable articles and research papers during his long academic career. 'Diner pore din je Gelo'(The Days pass by)published by Ananda Publishers,Calcutta is the title of his famous autobiography. Recently a college named after him has been founded in his native village Gotan to perpetuate his memory

Vishnu Pala's Manasa Mangala edited by Sukumar Sen is another of his work. The legend of Manasa, the snake Goddess, became a popular literary theme in Bengal from the 16th century with local and regional variations. The present edition of Vishnu Pala's Manasa Mangala was prepared by Prof. Sukumar Sen for the Bibliotheca Indica on the basis of the Asiatic Society manuscript no. 4993 (government collection). The interesting point is that the manuscript prepared from that were used by the singers who came from the common people; it was written sometimes between 1775 and 1825. Despite the late character of it, its linguistic importance cannot be gainsaid. Apart from that, it is a sample of folk treatment of Mangal poetry. Hence it is also of some interest to folklorists.
He showed gradual emergence of the Bengali language from Prakrit and Apabhramsa. At the beginning, devotional and lyric songs and mystical poetry, followed by narrative poetry, can be found. Gradually literary prose develops, and drama, as well as fiction. Sen gives many details about past writers and a broad sweep of the progress of the Bengali language, especially in its development during more or less recent times when it was reacting to Western influences
was a Bengali linguist. He had also vast knowledge in Pāli, Prakrit and Sanskrit. He wrote the book History of Bengali literature.





BANGLA SAHITTER ITHIHAS-RABINDRANATH


                                                                                 




8/11/11

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EK MUTHO JOLCHOBI


Ek mutho chalochchhobi (এক মুঠো চলচ্ছবি) is the first Bangla eBook about movie. Mainly this is a collection of movie related writings and movies reviews by many bloggers from Bangla blogs. All the best reviews are collected. Read this eBook to increase your knowledge about Bangla and Hollywood films. The book is free for all. Download the PDF from the link given in this post.
The editor of this film related eBook is Shekh Aminul Islam and, other members of editor panel are Kawsar Rusho, Masum Ahmed, and Saifuzzaman Khaled. This is smart looking and informative. You will find the history of Bangla movies, world’s famous movies review and many others good writings about this topic by the bloggers. Thanks to editor panel for this nice eBook



EK MUTHO JOLCHOBI

7/26/11

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU


Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India was born at Allahabad on 14 November 1889. He was the only son of Motilal Nehru and Swarup Rani. From the age of 15 to 23 Jawaharlal studied in England at Harrow, Cambridge and the Inner Temple returning to India in 1912.
Jawaharlal Nehru remained the Prime Minister of India for 17 long years and can rightly be called the architect of modern India. He set India on the path of democracy and nurtured its institution - Parliament, multi-party system, independent judiciary and free press. He encouraged Panjayati Raj institutions.
With the foresight of a statesman he created institutions like Planning Commission, National Science Laboratories and laid the foundation of a vast public sector for developing infrastructure for industrial growth. Besides, developing the public sector, Nehru also wanted to encourage the private sector to establish a social order based on social justice he emphasised the need of planned development. Nehru gave a clear direction to India’s role in the comity of nations with the policy of non alignment and the principle of Panchsheel, the five principles of peaceful coexistence at a time when the rivalries of cold-war were driving the humanity to its doom. His vision was that of extensive application of science and technology and industrialisation for better living and liberation from the clutches of poverty, superstition and ignorance. Education to him was very important for internal freedom and fearlessness. It was Nehru who insisted if the world was to exist at all; it must exist as one. He was generous and gracious. Emotional sensitivity and intellectual passion infused his writings, giving them unusual appeal and topicality even today. He was awarded Bharat Ratna in 1955. He never forgot India's great cultural heritage and liked to combine tradition with modernity.
Jawaharlal was a prolific writer in English and wrote a number of books like ‘The Discovery of India’, ‘Glimpses of World History’, his autobiography, ‘towards Freedom' (1936) ran nine editions in the first year alone. Emotional sensitivity and intellectual passion infused his writings, giving them unusual appeal & topicality even today. He was awarded Bharat Ratna in 1955.
Pandit Nehru loved children and they call him affectionately as Chacha Nehru. Hie birthday is observed as Children's Day. He believed that children are the future of the nation. Nehru passed away in 1964.



THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA


                                                                       






















TOWARD FREEDOM THE ATUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAWAHARLAL NEHRU (1941)



                                                                 






















GLIMPSES OF WORLD HISTORY



                                                                                       

6/30/11

NIRAD C. CHAUDHURI


Nirad C. Chaudhuri or Nirod Chondro Choudhuri was born in (23 November 1897 in Kishoreganj, which today is part of Bangladesh but at that time was part of Bengal, a region of British India. He was educated in Ripon College, Scottish Church College and University of Calcutta. He started his career as a clerk in the Accounting Department of the Indian Army. Bangali Jibane Ramani ,Atmaghati Bangali, Atmaghati Rabindranath are his well known Bangla writing. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, A Passage to England , The Continent of Circe, The Intellectual in India,To Live or Not to Live etc are his well known English writing. Nirad C. Chaudhuri was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1975 for his biography on Max Müller called Scholar Extraordinary, by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters.[1] In 1992, he was honoured by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom with the title of Commander of Order of the British Empire (CBE). His 1965 work The Continent of Circe earned him the Duff Cooper Memorial Award, becoming the first and only Indian to be selected for the prize. Nirad C. Chaudhuri died in 1 August 1999 in oxford, England.

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ATTOGHATI BANGALI 

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ATTOGHATI BANGALI



Reviewer: Dr. Radha Nag - - August 19, 2017
Subject: [Reviewed by "The Statesman", a News Daily of Calcutta]
'Radha Nag's recently-published Atmaghati Nirad Chandra is a welcome answer to Nirad C. Chaudhuri's Atmaghati Bangali and two-volume Atmaghati Rabindranath. In more than a decade since the publication of the first volume of this trilogy on the dire self-destruction of the Bengali people and their greatest poet, no Bengali has raised his voice against this charge - perhaps because it was framed by a Bengali who penned them in a respectable university town in England, clad in a Bengali dhoti, sitting on a Bengali mat.
Nag's beautifully-produced 80-page volume bears ample proof of its author's commendable economy of expression. She has used NCC's Bengali works to show that obscenities abound in them. The writer who held an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford, it seems, could not make his points without outraging the proverbial British sense of decency.
Chaudhuri the author, shows Nag, had been so trapped by Chaudhuri the man that he often makes unseemly self-revelations. And it may not be improbable that he was deliberately ribald to cater to popular tastes.
Nag's book is written in a delightfully ironic style and if she's sometimes hard on Chaudhuri, she has been so for the sake of truth.
-The Statesman: Calcutta Note-Book 09.04.2001
                                      
                       




BANGALI JIBONE ROMONI 

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BANGALI JIBONE ROMONI       

প্রথমত, বইটার নামকরণে গোলমাল আছে। এই বইটি বঙ্গজীবনে নারীর অবস্থান, ভূমিকা, গুরুত্ব, তার অতীত, পরিবর্তনশীল বর্তমান, অনিশ্চিত ভবিষ্যৎ, এসব নিয়ে আদৌ লেখা নয়। এটি স্বল্পমাত্রায় বাংলা এবং বেশি করে ধ্রুপদী সাহিত্যে নারীর ডেপিকশন বা পোর্ট্রেয়াল নিয়ে লেখা।
দ্বিতীয়ত, ওই বিষয়ে ব্যাপ্তি ও গভীরতায় এমন একটি বই লিখতে যে পাণ্ডিত্য ও নির্মোহ মানসিকতা প্রয়োজন, তা লেখকের ছিল। তাই তাঁর সময়ে দাঁড়িয়েও তিনি এমন একটি লেখা পেশ করেছেন যা এখনও দেদীপ্যমান তথা জ্বলন্ত।
তৃতীয়ত, কোনো প্রাবন্ধিক ও গবেষক স্বাধীনতার পর ভারত, পূর্ব পাকিস্তান, এবং বাংলাদেশের সাহিত্যে ('জীবনে' নয়। সেটা একান্তভাবেই সমাজতাত্ত্বিক, নৃতাত্ত্বিক, এবং নারীবাদীর এক্তিয়ারে চলে যাবে) নারীর বদলাতে থাকা অবস্থা তথা অবস্থান নিয়ে এমন করেই কিছু লিখবেন, সেই আশায় আছি। তবে কাজটা অসম্ভব কঠিন, কারণ আলোচ্য বইয়ের লেখকের মতো পার্সপেক্টিভ ও জ্ঞান অর্জন করা 'মুশকিল হি নহি, নামুমকিন হ্যায়' বলে মনে হয়েছে।
আমি লেখাটা নীরদচন্দ্র চৌধুরী শতবার্ষিকী সংকলন-এর অংশ হিসেবে পড়লাম। আপনারা যদি বইটি আলাদাভাবে পান, তাহলেও অতি অবশ্যই পড়ুন। এই লেভেলের পাণ্ডিত্য আমরা এখন ভাবতেই পারি না!


                                                           







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   ATTOGHATI ROBINDRANATH                      

                     
Radha Nag's recently-published Atmaghati Nirad Chandra is a welcome answer to Nirad C. Chaudhuri's Atmaghati Bangali and two-volume Atmaghati Rabindranath. In more than a decade since the publication of the first volume of this trilogy on the dire self-destruction of the Bengali people and their greatest poet, no Bengali has raised his voice against this charge - perhaps because it was framed by a Bengali who penned them in a respectable university town in England, clad in a Bengali dhoti, sitting on a Bengali mat. Nag's beautifully-produced 80-page volume bears ample proof of its author's commendable economy of expression. She has used NCC's Bengali works to show that obscenities abound in them. The writer who held an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford, it seems, could not make his points without outraging the proverbial British sense of decency. Chaudhuri the author, shows Nag, had been so trapped by Chaudhuri the man that he often makes unseemly self-revelations. And it may not be improbable that he was deliberately ribald to cater to popular tastes. Nag's book is written in a delightfully ironic style and if she's sometimes hard on Chaudhuri, she has been so for the sake of truth.