SPECIAL DEATH MEMORIES: Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay's writing is a mirror for society, rural India has received voice

New -Delhi, September 14 (IANS). The literature world remembers him on the death anniversary of Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, the great novelist of Bangla Literature. On September 14, the death anniversary of novelist Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay will be celebrated, which is an opportunity to remember his literary contribution and life. He was a great pillar of the Bengali literature and his contribution in the field of Indian literature is comparable. Their compositions portray the issues of rural life, social change and freedom struggle, which is still relevant today. Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay was born on July 23, 1898 in the town of Best Pur in the Birbhum district in Western Bengals. His father was Haridas and Mother Prabhavati Devi. In 1916 he passed the matriculation investigation from his town. He reached Kolkata for higher education, where he at the St. Xavier’s College and later studied at Southern Suburban College (now Ashutosh College), but his studies have remained incomplete due to active participation in the freedom struggle. According to the Ministry of Culture, the government of India, Tarashankar, in his work Dhatri Devta (1939) raised two parallel streams of rural reforms and fiercely nationalism during the freedom struggle, as well as association with these movements. Tarashankar Tandopadhyay’s stories and novels contain social truth and beliefs in themselves. By doing social system and evils, he did the job to shock people’s psyche. All its compositions expose the conservatism and hypocrisy of society and introduce the truth of human relations. Tandopadhyay, born in a Zamindar family, also exposed the flaws of the Zamindari system to the edge of his letter. Later, Tarashankar devoted his life to literature creation. He began drama and poems and then brought life, society, the struggle and culture of the rural Bengal into his writing. His works contain more than 65 novels, more than 100 floors and various 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 engraved the cultural and social complications of the rural Bengal in his compositions in general. His novels are not only excellent examples of the story, but also mirrors that reflect the struggle of different parts of society. He was awarded the Jnanpith Award in 1966 for his novel Galvata. Earlier, he received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Arogya Niketan in 1956. In 1969, the Government of India awarded the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to the field of literature and education. It is said that Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s name was nominated in 1971 for the Nobel Prize for Sahitya, but that year the award received the award to the poet Pablo Neruda from Chile. This information became public after 50 years. The hero devoted to literature died in Calcutta on September 14, 1971. -Ians Aks/DKP