“You won’t dislike Ghatshila. …When you arrive, we will go bathing in that secluded lake where the blossoming moonlight displays the night’s wares.” This letter of Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay shows how much of a companion the poet Biswa Bandyopadhyay was for Bibhutibhusan’s mind. Prabodh Chandra Sen remarked about Biswa...
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[Translator’s note: Gangaprasad Mukhopadhyay was the father of Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, the second Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta and prolific Bengali educator. Here’s an anecdote on Sir Ashutosh’s father translated from Ashutosher Chhatrajiban (Ed. Umaprasad Mukhopadhyay).] In 1866 Gangaprasad passed his M.B....
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[Translator’s note: Sivanath Sastri, scholar, religious reformer, writer and educator visited England in 1888 and stayed there for six months. He was a keen observer and describes in detail his experiences in England in his Atmacharit (September, 2003; Dey’s Publishing; Kolkata), his autobiography. A few snippets translated from Bengali….] I...
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[Translator’s note: Sivanath Sastri, scholar, religious reformer, writer and educator visited England in 1888 and stayed there for six months. He was a keen observer and describes in detail his experiences in England in his Atmacharit (September, 2003; Dey’s Publishing; Kolkata), his autobiography. A few snippets translated from Bengali….] I...
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David Hare was a man closer to god. All day and night he would remain obsessed with the welfare of his students. Once his student Ramtanu Lahiri had an attack of cholera. The news reached Hare. From near the Lal Dighi, he immediately rushed to his student’s home. David Hare always carried some medicines with him. He took the responsibility of...
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The name of the first playwright in Bengali in not unknown to any. The play which bestowed such fame and honour to Ramnarayan Tarkaratna is called Kulinkulosarbossho. Once, the play Ratnabali, composed by him, was being enacted in the king’s palace in Belgachhia’s Paikpara in Calcutta. Ratnabali was, however, a translation of Sri Harsha’s...
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