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Sahitya Academy Award Winner || Eka Eka Ekashi || By Sankar

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Sahitya Academy Award Winner || Eka Eka Ekashi || By Sankar

396 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2002

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Sankar

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Shankar's real name is Mani Shankar Mukherjee. Sankar is a very popular writer in the Bengali language. He grew up in Howrah district of West Bengal, India.
Shankar's father died while Shankar was still a teenager, as a result of which Shankar became a clerk to the last British barrister of the Calcutta High Court, Noel Frederick Barwell. The experience of working under Mr. Barwell provided the material for his first book Koto Ojanare (কত অজানারে), translated as The Great Unknown.
During 1962, Shankar conceived the idea of writing the novel Chowringhee on a rainy day at the waterlogged crossing of Central Avenue and Dalhousie - a busy business district in the heart of Kolkata.
Many of Shankar's works have been made into films. Some notable ones are - Chowringhee, Jana Aranya (জন-অরণ্য, translated as The Middleman) and Seemabaddha (সীমাবদ্ধ, out of which the last two were directed by Satyajit Ray.

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February 4, 2025
জীবনের গোড়া থেকে শুরু করে প্রায় ৮০ বছরের যে অক্লান্ত পরিশ্রম লেখক বর্ণনা করেছেন তা অসাধারণ, রূপক অর্থধর্মি লেখাগুলো অতি সহজে লেখকের মন ছুয়ে যেতে বাধ্য।
ছোট থেকে অর্থাভাব, বিভিন্ন সাহিত্যিক দের সান্নিধ্য, সম্পাদক সাগরময় বাবুর হাত ধরে সাহিত্যে ঝাঁপ দেওয়া কিংবা বিবেকানন্দ স্কুল থেকে বারওয়েল সাহেব , জীবন যুদ্ধ চিত্রাঙ্কন করার সাথে দর্শনের যে এত সুন্দর মেলবন্ধন করেছেন তার জন্য তাকে প্রণাম জানায়।
সব থেকে বড় পাওনা হলো শংকর এর লেখাগুলো অত্যন্ত "ভারী" কিন্তু "মসৃণ"।
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December 12, 2023
A poignant memoir of a celebrated Bengali author, who takes us down the memory lane. He nicely describes the travails he had to endure in order to rise.
A good read that will definitely induce teary eyed feelings.
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