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Paper Specification Sharat Sahitya Samagra(1- 2) (Bengali) Ananda Publisher Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay Hardcover Bengali 8170664071 9788170664079 Hardcover
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (also spelt Saratchandra) (Bengali: শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) was a legendary Bengali novelist from India. He was one of the most popular Bengali novelists of the early 20th century.
His childhood and youth were spent in dire poverty as his father, Motilal Chattopadhyay, was an idler and dreamer and gave little security to his five children. Saratchandra received very little formal education but inherited something valuable from his father—his imagination and love of literature.
He started writing in his early teens and two stories written then have survived—‘Korel’ and ‘Kashinath’. Saratchandra came to maturity at a time when the national movement was gaining momentum together with an awakening of social consciousness.
Much of his writing bears the mark of the resultant turbulence of society. A prolific writer, he found the novel an apt medium for depicting this and, in his hands, it became a powerful weapon of social and political reform.
Sensitive and daring, his novels captivated the hearts and minds of thousands of readers not only in Bengal but all over India.
Some of his best known novels are Palli Samaj (1916), Charitraheen (1917), Devdas (1917), Nishkriti (1917), Srikanta in four parts (1917, 1918, 1927 and 1933), Griha Daha (1920), Sesh Prasna (1929) and Sesher Parichay published posthumously (1939).
"My literary debt is not limited to my predecessors only. I'm forever indebted to the deprived, ordinary people who give this world everything they have and yet receive nothing in return, to the weak and oppressed people whose tears nobody bothers to notice and to the endlessly hassled, distressed (weighed down by life) and helpless people who don't even have a moment to think that: despite having everything, they have right to nothing. They made me start to speak. They inspired me to take up their case and plead for them. I have witnessed endless injustice to these people, unfair intolerable indiscriminate justice. It's true that springs do come to this world for some - full of beauty and wealth - with its sweet smelling breeze perfumed with newly bloomed flowers and spiced with cuckoo's song, but such good things remained well outside the sphere where my sight remained imprisoned. This poverty abounds in my writings."
http://sarat-rachanabali.becs.ac.in/i...
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (also spelt Saratchandra) (Bengali: শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) was a legendary Bengali novelist from India. He was one of the most popular Bengali novelists of the early 20th century.
His childhood and youth were spent in dire poverty as his father, Motilal Chattopadhyay, was an idler and dreamer and gave little security to his five children. Saratchandra received very little formal education but inherited something valuable from his father—his imagination and love of literature.
He started writing in his early teens and two stories written then have survived—‘Korel’ and ‘Kashinath’. Saratchandra came to maturity at a time when the national movement was gaining momentum together with an awakening of social consciousness.
Much of his writing bears the mark of the resultant turbulence of society. A prolific writer, he found the novel an apt medium for depicting this and, in his hands, it became a powerful weapon of social and political reform.
Sensitive and daring, his novels captivated the hearts and minds of thousands of readers not only in Bengal but all over India.
Some of his best known novels are Palli Samaj (1916), Charitraheen (1917), Devdas (1917), Nishkriti (1917), Srikanta in four parts (1917, 1918, 1927 and 1933), Griha Daha (1920), Sesh Prasna (1929) and Sesher Parichay published posthumously (1939).
"My literary debt is not limited to my predecessors only. I'm forever indebted to the deprived, ordinary people who give this world everything they have and yet receive nothing in return, to the weak and oppressed people whose tears nobody bothers to notice and to the endlessly hassled, distressed (weighed down by life) and helpless people who don't even have a moment to think that: despite having everything, they have right to nothing. They made me start to speak. They inspired me to take up their case and plead for them. I have witnessed endless injustice to these people, unfair intolerable indiscriminate justice. It's true that springs do come to this world for some - full of beauty and wealth - with its sweet smelling breeze perfumed with newly bloomed flowers and spiced with cuckoo's song, but such good things remained well outside the sphere where my sight remained imprisoned. This poverty abounds in my writings."
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December 22, 2015
শ্রীকান্ত, গৃহদাহ, মেজদিদি... দেবদাস !
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January 18, 2012
Certain things need to be stated in black & white, and they are: -
1) I am NOT a lover of the fiction penned by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, and consider his writings to be sentimental, biased, over-judgmental and indescribably bleak.
2) He has always shown incomparable skill in creating minor characters (who have gone on to become unforgettable, at times at the expense of the so-called protagonists), and then have been equally deft (daft?) in disposing them off just at his whims. Compared to these sidelined persons, his heroes are wimps and heroines are realistically futile in all their rebelliousness.
3) His novels are over-long, and outdated.
Combined to these feelings, the particular edition (at least the one that I have) in question has tissue-paper used for printing of the entire stuff, to reduce price of the volume. The editorial & other information are inadequate. The single-volume nature makes it unwieldy. So, overall, I hate this book. But please don't let yourselves carried away by that.
1) I am NOT a lover of the fiction penned by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, and consider his writings to be sentimental, biased, over-judgmental and indescribably bleak.
2) He has always shown incomparable skill in creating minor characters (who have gone on to become unforgettable, at times at the expense of the so-called protagonists), and then have been equally deft (daft?) in disposing them off just at his whims. Compared to these sidelined persons, his heroes are wimps and heroines are realistically futile in all their rebelliousness.
3) His novels are over-long, and outdated.
Combined to these feelings, the particular edition (at least the one that I have) in question has tissue-paper used for printing of the entire stuff, to reduce price of the volume. The editorial & other information are inadequate. The single-volume nature makes it unwieldy. So, overall, I hate this book. But please don't let yourselves carried away by that.
March 8, 2013
It was class 7 when I first laid my hands on this book. Till now, I have been reading this book, a thousand times, without getting bored. It never fails to amaze me.
January 17, 2012
Finally I have it :)
November 5, 2017
ছোট বয়সে ও পরিণত বয়সে দুবার দুরূপে দেখেছি। শরৎচন্দ্র না জানলে সমাজ জানা যায়না।
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March 24, 2016srikanth telugu verson
October 13, 2024
Known as the দরদী কথা শিল্পী Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay masterfully plays with the emotions and feelings of ordinary and common people of Bengal and around. He successfully delves in and out of the minds and lives of common men and women and brings out their lives, pleas and stories.
His characters are the ones most commonly found in Bengal and covers a range of society from illiterate farmers to college professors; from rich feudal lords to day labours. He treats his characters with sympathy along side making no efforts in hiding their shortcomings.
The collection is a must read , if one wishes to relate and know the lives of pre-independence Bengalis.
His characters are the ones most commonly found in Bengal and covers a range of society from illiterate farmers to college professors; from rich feudal lords to day labours. He treats his characters with sympathy along side making no efforts in hiding their shortcomings.
The collection is a must read , if one wishes to relate and know the lives of pre-independence Bengalis.
October 13, 2021
Where it all started.
February 3, 2024
Good 👍😊
August 29, 2019
সে কোন ছোটবেলায় বইটা পেয়ে এত খুশি ছিলাম। হাহা ♥
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January 18, 2018nice book
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