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Rabindranath Tagore              

                                         

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

Tagore is from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At age sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs; his legacy endures also in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

 Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894-1950)

Bibhutibhushan's early days were spent in abject poverty and he subsequently supported his family financially, though the extent of his support is unknown.

Gouri Devi was the writer's first wife, but she died in cholera a year after their marriage. Gouri's death and Bibhutibhushan's consequent loneliness led to a theme of tragedy that became a recurrent motif in his early writings. At the age of 46, Bibhutibhushan married Rama Chattopadhyay and the couple raised a son, Taradas, who was born in 1947.

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's works are largely set in rural Bengal, with characters from that area. Many of his novels are set in the city of Bongaon, including Pather Panchali, Adarsha Hindu Hotel, Ichamati and Bipiner Sansar.

In 1921, Bibhutibhushan's first published short story, "Upekshita," appeared in Probashi, at the time one of Bengal's leading literary magazines. However, it was not until 1928, when his first novel Pather Panchali (also known in English as Song of the Little Road) was published (initially as a serial, then as a book in 1929), that Bibhutibhushan received critical attention.Pather Panchali brought Bibhutibhushan to prominence in Bengali literature and the novel and its sequel Aparajito, were subsequently translated into numerous languages.Additionally, these two were made into films by Satyajit Ray and, together with Apur Sansar, formed the highly successful Apu Trilogy.

Ray referred scriptwriting students to the author with the following line of praise for the author's skill with written dialogue: "His lines fit the characters so well, they are so revealing that even when the author provides no physical description, every character seems to present itself before us simply through the words it speaks  

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Speculative Bibhutibhushan

I personally admire him for his work of "Chander Pahar" I wonder how he has wrote a book like Chander Pahar. The story is entirely based on African continent and it is all about a story of diamond/gold prospecting in African continent. If any one has already read the book he can at least imagine how was the continent look like in time of Pre First World War, You can smell the dry earth wetted with rain water in the deep forest by closing your eyes, lost tribes, labyrinthine trails, raging volcanoes what a exact description and more over the the nature of wild Africa in Pre First World War time. Finally the most wondering fact to me about the story is when I heard that the writer has never visit the African Continent  in his life time. 

Moon Mountain the English version of " Chander Phahar"  

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (1899-1970)

He was born to Tarabhushan and Bijaliprabha Bandyopadhyay at his maternal grandparents' home in Jaunpur, United Province, India. The family hailed from Purnea, Bihar, India. He passed the matriculation examination in 1915 and took admission in Vidyasagar College, Calcutta. While studying there, he published his first work, Jaubansmriti, a collection of poems, at the age of 20. In 1919, he passed the B.A. examination. He studied law in Patna and then devoted his time to writing.