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Bhabani Bhattacharya

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Bhabani Bhattacharya


Born
in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency, British India
November 10, 1906

Died
October 10, 1988


was an Indian writer, of Bengali origin, who wrote social-realist fiction. He was born in Bhagalpur, part of the Bengal Presidency in British India. Bhattacharya gained a bachelor's degree from Patna University and a doctorate from the University of London. He returned to India and joined the diplomatic service. Bhattacharya served in the United States, to which country he returned as a teacher of literary studies once he had left the service. He taught in Hawaii, and later in Seattle. In his mid-thirties Bhattacharya began writing fiction set in historically and socially realistic contexts. He wrote in English, his chosen medium following the advice of two prominent literary figures.
Bhattacharya is described as belonging to the social real
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“Gandhiji was not born in freedom. All his life, except for a few months. lay within the framework of colonial rule. A good part of that life lay buried in prison cells. Yet he was always the free man, while those who held him imprisoned were the unfree ones.”
Bhabani Bhattacharya, Shadow from Ladakh

“Could it be that even his ideas about vice had changed? Vice used to be a harmless word. You were entitled to your private vice, so long as it hurt no one and pleased a few.”
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