While referring to the poetic qualities of the ‘modern’ poets Jibanananda says that the beginning of modern poetry can be traced from those limits where Rabindranath Tagore’s social and historical consciousness slowed down. The modern poets concentrated their attention on those aspects of life which ‘had been deprived of the...
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I heard the name of Satyajit Ray for the first time in 1945. At that time my eldest sister (Smt. Maya Mukhopadhyay) brought Abol Tabol along with several other volumes. The books were printed by Signet Press. Each of the books bore the marks of a clean and refined taste. The covers were gorgeous, intended to win the hearts of the young. The outside cover...
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The city of Kolkata has neither been established by the British, nor can we say that the Bengalis have much to do with its foundation. It grew on its own although both the Englishmen and the Bengalis helped it to grow. (Let me alert the readers here that when I say ‘Bengalis’, I include many people who belong to other states of India —...
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[Translator’s note: More than eighty years ago a group of young men — budding poets and writers — began to create waves in the realm of Bengali literature. The flair they brought into literature was something not tasted before. But more than that what would appeal to the modern readers is their sincerity and devotion to the literary...
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There was a time when I was in a simple relationship of love with poetry. A thought appeared in my mind or I vaguely imagined something or something happened that had an intense effect on me; I opened my notebook and words used to run like a gushing stream. There was no need of thinking, no worries about crossing out a word or a line. My pen would move...
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In his own times Abbasuddin Ahmed (1901 – 1959), the singer, was nothing short of an icon. The age in which he rode the waves of fame was not the age of the radio and the television. The easy access that artists of today have to the homes of the listeners was unimaginable in those days. It was the age of the recording studio and the gramophone...
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