Rabindranath Tagore
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| 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
Source (Wikipedia) Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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
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.
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.
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