New Delhi, 14 September (). The literature world is remembering him on the death anniversary of Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, the great novelist of Bangla literature. On September 14, the death anniversary of novelist Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay is celebrated, which is an opportunity to remember his literary contribution and life. He was a great pillar of Bengali literature and his contribution in the field of Indian literature is incomparable. Their compositions depict the issues of rural life, social change and freedom struggle, which are still relevant today.
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay was born on 23 July 1898 in Benefpur village in Birbhum district of West Bengal. His father was Haridas and mother Prabhavati Devi. In 1916, he passed the matriculation examination from his village. He reached Kolkata for higher education, where he studied at St. Xavier’s College and later at Southern Suburban College (currently Ashutosh College), but his studies remained incomplete due to active participation in the freedom struggle.
According to the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Tarashankar, in his work Dhatri Devta (1939), raised two parallel streams of rural reforms and fierce nationalism during the freedom struggle, as well as showing association with these movements.
Tarashankar Bandopadhyay’s stories and novels include social truth and beliefs in itself. By doing social system and evils, he has done the work of shocking people’s psyche. All his compositions expose the conservatism and hypocrisy of society and introduce the truth of human relations. Bandopadhyay, born in a zamindar family, also exposed the flaws of the zamindari system from the edge of his writing.
Later Tarashankar dedicated his life to literature creation. He started with drama and poems and then brought the life, society, struggle and culture of rural Bengal into his writing. His works include over 65 novels, more than 100 stories and several plays. The specialty of Tarashankar’s compositions is the simplicity and depth of his language. He used to give literary height to the lingua franca of Bangla.
He alively engraved the cultural and social complications of rural Bengal in his compositions. His novels are not only excellent examples of the story, but also mirrors reflecting the struggles of different sections of society.
He was awarded the Jnanpith Award in 1966 for his novel Gandevata. Earlier, he received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Arogya Niketan in 1956. In 1969, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan for his contribution in the field of literature and education.
It is said that in 1971, Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s name was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Sahitya, but that year the award received the award to Chile’s poet Pablo Neruda. This information became public after 50 years. The hero dedicated to literature died on 14 September 1971 in Calcutta.
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