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শ্রেষ্ঠ গল্প
- GenresShort Stories
535 pages, Hardcover
Published February 1, 2006
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Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
130 books287 followersTarashankar Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: তারাশঙ্কর বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was born at his ancestral home at Labhpur village in Birbhum district, Bengal Province, British India (now West Bengal, India). He wrote 65 novels, 53 story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies and 2 travel stories. For his novel Arogyaniketan, he received the Rabindra Puraskar in 1955 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1956. In 1966, he received the Jnanpith Award for his novel গণদেবতা. He was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1962 and the Padma Bhushan in 1969.
Tarasankar is one of those writers of the third decades of the twentieth centuries who broke the poetic tradition in novels but took to writing prose with the world around them adding romance to human relationship breaking the indifference of the so called conservative people of the society who dare to call a spade a spade. Tarasankar’s novels, so to say, do not look back to the realism in rejection, but accepted it in a new way allowing the reader to breathe the truth of human relationship restricted so far by the conservative and hypocrisy of the then society.
He learned to see the world from various angles. He seldom rose above the matter soil and his Birbhum exists only in time and place. He had never been a worshipper of eternity. Tarasankar’s chief contribution to Bengal literature is that he dared writing unbiased. He wrote what he believed. He wrote what he observed.
His novels are rich in material and potentials. He preferred sensation to thought. He was ceaselessly productive and his novels are long, seemed unending and characters belonged to the various classes of people from zaminder down to pauper. Tarasankar experimented in his novels with the relationships, even so called illegal, of either sexes. He proved that sexual relation between man and women sometimes dominate to such an extent that it can take an upperhand over the prevailing laws and instructions of society. His novel ‘Radha’ can be set for an example in this context.
His historical novel ‘Ganna Begum’ is an attempt worth mentioning for its traditional values. Tarasankar ventured into all walks of Bengali life and it’s experience with the happenings of socio-political milieu. Tarasankar will be remembered for his potential to work with the vast panorama of life where life is observed with care and the judgment is offered to the reader. and long ones, then any other author. He is a region novelist, his country being the same Birbhum. He mainly flourished during the war years, having produced in that period a large number of novels and short stories.
Tarasankar is one of those writers of the third decades of the twentieth centuries who broke the poetic tradition in novels but took to writing prose with the world around them adding romance to human relationship breaking the indifference of the so called conservative people of the society who dare to call a spade a spade. Tarasankar’s novels, so to say, do not look back to the realism in rejection, but accepted it in a new way allowing the reader to breathe the truth of human relationship restricted so far by the conservative and hypocrisy of the then society.
He learned to see the world from various angles. He seldom rose above the matter soil and his Birbhum exists only in time and place. He had never been a worshipper of eternity. Tarasankar’s chief contribution to Bengal literature is that he dared writing unbiased. He wrote what he believed. He wrote what he observed.
His novels are rich in material and potentials. He preferred sensation to thought. He was ceaselessly productive and his novels are long, seemed unending and characters belonged to the various classes of people from zaminder down to pauper. Tarasankar experimented in his novels with the relationships, even so called illegal, of either sexes. He proved that sexual relation between man and women sometimes dominate to such an extent that it can take an upperhand over the prevailing laws and instructions of society. His novel ‘Radha’ can be set for an example in this context.
His historical novel ‘Ganna Begum’ is an attempt worth mentioning for its traditional values. Tarasankar ventured into all walks of Bengali life and it’s experience with the happenings of socio-political milieu. Tarasankar will be remembered for his potential to work with the vast panorama of life where life is observed with care and the judgment is offered to the reader. and long ones, then any other author. He is a region novelist, his country being the same Birbhum. He mainly flourished during the war years, having produced in that period a large number of novels and short stories.
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August 7, 2015
এতে যা পড়লাম-
জলসাঘর, তারিণী মাঝি, খাজাঞ্চিবাবু, আখড়াইয়ের দীঘি, নারী ও নাগিণী, কালাপাহাড়, তাসের ঘর, অগ্রদানী,
বেদেনী, ডাইনী, না, পৌষ-লক্ষ্মী, দেবতার ব্যাধি, ইমারত।
জলসাঘর, তারিণী মাঝি, খাজাঞ্চিবাবু, আখড়াইয়ের দীঘি, নারী ও নাগিণী, কালাপাহাড়, তাসের ঘর, অগ্রদানী,
বেদেনী, ডাইনী, না, পৌষ-লক্ষ্মী, দেবতার ব্যাধি, ইমারত।
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June 6, 2020
তারাশঙ্করের কল্পিত দৃশ্যগুলো এত জীবন্ত যে প্রায়ই মনে পড়ে যায় তীব্রভাবে। তাঁর কওয়া নারীর মর্মভেদী চাহনি মাঝে মাঝেই মনশ্চক্ষে তাড়া করে। কিংবা বন্যার পানিতে সস্ত্রীক ডুবন্ত জেলের 'আত্মপক্ষ সমর্থন'।
July 5, 2021
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November 1, 2016
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