Download or read book Srikanta written by Saratchandra Chattopadhyay and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel, Srikanta, depicts the story of a vagabond young man who wandered from one place to another harbouring some inexplicable yearning. He remained a stoic all his life even as he lived among beautiful women. He lived apathetic to worldly pleasures. He was dear to all but belonged to none. An immortal piece of work, the novel was written by globally renowned Bengalee story-teller Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay.

Download or read book Devdas written by Śaratcandra Caṭṭopādhyāya and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Of The Most Enduring Love Stories Of Our Times. First Published In Bengali In 1917, Saratchandra Chattopadhyay'S Tragic Tale Of Devdas Has Become Synonymous With A Passionate, Intense Love That Does Not Find Consummation. It Is The Story Of Devdas And Paro, Childhood Sweethearts Who Are Torn Apart When Devdas Is Sent Away To Calcutta By His Father, The Local Zamindar. When Devdas Returns To His Village, Now A Handsome Lad Of Nineteen, Paro Asks Him To Marry Her. But Devdas Is Unable To Stand Up To Parental Opposition To The Match And Rejects The Proposition. Stunned, Paro Agrees To Marry An Elderly Widower. Devdas Returns To Calcutta, But Every Waking Hour Of His Is Now Filled With Thoughts Of Paro And His Unfulfilled Love For Her. Desperate To Resolve The Situation Somehow, He Runs To Paro Who Is Now Married And Asks Her To Elope With Him, But She Refuses. Heartbroken, He Seeks Solace In Alcohol And In The Company Of The Courtesan Chandramukhi. Chandramukhi Falls In Love With Devdas, But Even When He Is With Her He Can Only Think Of Paro. It Is Now His Destiny To Hurtle On Relentlessly On The Path To Self-Destruction. Devdas S Tortured Life Ends When, Dying Of A Liver Ailment Brought On By Alcoholism, He Journeys To Paro S House To See Her One Last Time. Arriving In The Middle Of The Night, He Dies Unknown, Untended, On Her Doorstep. Paro Comes To Know Of His Death Only The Following Morning. Devdas Has Enthralled Readers And Filmgoing Audiences Alike For The Better Part Of A Century. This New Translation Brings The Classic Tale Of Star-Crossed Lovers Alive For A New Generation Of Readers. The Classic Novel Brought To Life In A New, Lucid, Extremely Readable Translation.

Download or read book Final Question written by Chattopadhyay Saratchandra and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The heroine, Kamal, is exceptional for her time. She lives and travels by herself, has relationships with various men, looks poverty and suffering in the face, and asserts the autonomy of the individual being. In the process, she tears apart the frame of the expatriate Bengali society of Agra, where she lives. Through Kamal, Saratchandra questions Indian tradition and the norms of nationhood and womanhood."--Back cover.

Download or read book Parineeta written by Saratchandra Chattopadhyay and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel, Sharat Chandra has portrayed the external beauty as well as the internal beauty and mental feelings of the Indian woman with amazing dexterity. He has done so in such a perfect manner that no other novelist of Indian languages has been able to reach his level. lolita of 'Parineeta', like every female characters of other novels penned by Sharat Chandra, depicts live images of the problems related to the life of women, the internal clashes among them and their innate feelings Among many novels of Sharat Chandra, 'Parineeta' is a superior novel. Many successful movies have been made by taking this novel as a script base.

Download or read book The Saratchandra Omnibus Srikanta written by Śaratcandra Caṭṭopādhyāya and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2005 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He touched the core of the Bengalis' pain with his words' - Rabindranath Tagore. Saratchandra Chattopadhyay is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest Indian novelists of the twentieth century. His novels, serialized in periodicals and later published in book form, established him as Bengal's master storyteller. Even today, seven decades after his death, Saratchandra remains one of the most popular novelists in Bengal, and is widely read in translation across India as well. This collector's edition of Saratchandra's works in English translation brings together the writer's most renowned and best-loved novels in two omnibus volumes. The first volume features five novels: Srikanta, Devdas, Parineeta, Palli Samaj and Nishkriti. Srikanta is the story of a wanderer who observes the people around him; through them - especially the women he loves and respects, from the sacrificing Annada Didi and the rebellious Abhaya to the housewife Rajlakshmi and the courtesan Pyari Bai - he tries to arrive at an understanding of life. Devdas is the tragic tale of a man who drives himself to drink and debilitation when he is unable to marry his childhood sweetheart Paro. guardian Shekhar, but circumstances conspire to drive the two apart. Palli Samaj (The Village Life) has Ramesh, an engineer, returning to the village of his birth to try and rid it of the backwardness that plagues it, even as he tries to revive his childhood ties with Rama, now a widow. In Nishkriti (Deliverance), the strong-willed Shailaja, the youngest daughter-in-law in a joint family, is made an outcast as a result of a misunderstanding; much later, her elders realize their mistake, just in time to save the family from disintegration. Each of the novels showcases the qualities Saratchandra is famous or: everyday stories told in a simple yet gripping style, strong characters, meticulous plotting, true-to-life dialogue, and unforgettable depictions of life in turn-of-the-century Bengal. Translated especially for Penguin, these classic novels will delight those new to Saratchandra's works as well as those who want to return to them again.

Download or read book Stories from Saratchandra written by Saratchandra Chattopadhyay and published by Rupa Publications India. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Some time ago, a sudden rumour spread across our region that unless three children were sacrificed, the railway bridge over Roopnarayan just could not be constructed. Two small boys had already been buried alive under one of the pillions, and only one more needed to be caught...' This book is a collection of twelve widely acclaimed short stories of Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, one of the doyens of Bengali literature. Divided into two sections, the first bunch of stories portray childhood in all its unburdened innocence while the latter section leads on to deeper sensibilities-the everyday experience of casteism, the lived reality of social hierarchy, and the bonds of almost filial affection forged between man and animal that sustain both. Stories from Saratchandra shows Saratchandra's keen eye as a social commentator, presenting a vivid picture of life in rural Bengal during the early twentieth century.

Download or read book Classic Saratchandra written by Śaratcandra Caṭṭopādhyāya and published by Penguin Books, Limited (UK). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Lustful Arson written by Saratchandra Chattopadhyay and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find a suitable English word for the original title. 'Grihadaha’ of Sanskrit origin, is difficult if not an incorrect approach. The original word exudes symbols conveying various ideas. Similar word in English is not traceable, making exact translation impossible. Hence the three-word title. 'A Lustful Arson'. With it an attempt has been made to stress the psychic turbulence the protagonists suffer from the split in blissful relation of love and trust, and then being pushed to hellish experience of Life.

Download or read book Srikanta written by Śaratcandra Caṭṭopādhyāya and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay written by Narasingha Prosad Sil and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay has been the most popular writer of novels and short stories in his native Bengaland in India at large. Despite this, he remains unrecognized in the English speaking world. Narasingha P. Sil fills this void by presenting a historical critical assessment of his upbringing and the experiences that influenced his masterful and magnificent work. The Life of Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay rescues the authentic man, a caste-conscious and patriarchal Brahmin of colonial Bengal, from the cuckoo land of gratuitous praise and panegyric showered on the Aparajeya Kathasilpi, the "invincible" wordsmith. The author exposes Sharatchandra's innate conservative worldview and his romantic platonic concept of human sexuality that inform all his love stories. In many respects Sharatchandra resembles his formidable European forbear, Jean Jacques Rousseau of Enlightenment France. The concluding chapter of Sil's biographical study introduces this pioneering comparison between the two men--a veritable tour de force.

Download or read book Classics of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay written by Śaratcandra Caṭṭopādhyāya and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intimate Relations written by Krupa Shandilya and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate Relations remaps the discussion on gender and the nation in South Asia through a close study of the domestic novel as a literary genre and a tool for social reform. As a product of the intersection of literary and social reform movements, in the late nineteenth century the domestic novel became a site for literary innovation and also for rethinking women’s roles in society and politics. Krupa Shandilya focuses primarily on social reform movements that negotiated the intimate relations between men and women in Hindu and Muslim society, namely, the widow remarriage act in Bengal (1856) and the education of women promoted by the Aligarh movement (1858–1900). Both movements were invested in recovering woman as a “respectable” subject for the Hindu and Muslim nation, where respectability connoted asexual spirituality. While most South Asian literary scholarship has focused on a normative Hindu woman, Intimate Relations couples discussion of the representation of the widow in bhadralok (upper-caste, middle-class) society with that of the courtesan of sharif (upper-class, Muslim, feudal) society in Bengali and Urdu novels from the 1880s to the 1920s. By drawing together their disparate histories in the context of contemporaneous social reform movements, Shandilya reflects on the similarities of Hindu and Islamic constructions of the gendered nation.

Download or read book Sarat Chandra Chatterjee written by Humayun Kabir and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the life and works of Śaratcandra Caṭṭopādhyāya, 1876-1938, Bengali author.

Download or read book Selected Novels of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee written by Śaratcandra Caṭṭopādhyāya and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents unabridged translation of five of the many captivating novels of the legendary writer Sarat Chandra Chatterjee of India, who wrote in Bengali language in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Devdas: The young boy Devdas has an ardent follower, a little girl Parvati, who is his neighbor's daughter. They grow up together in a class conscious, tradition bound, rural community. Their friendship turns into love as they mature. Will they be able to have their wish fulfilled and unite with each other for the rest of their lives? Which way their fate will take them? Good Riddance (Niskriti): Girish is a successful man and both he and his wife are magnanimous. They allow Girish's incompetent and poor cousin and his family to live with them as a joint family. An atmosphere of great love and understanding prevails over the joint family. But, what happens when Girish's younger brother Harish, who is also a successful man and has a wife with western education, joins the family? What events take place and what are the roles played by different family members? Pundit (Pundit-moshai): Brindabon was married at a young age, but was soon made by his father to desert his child bride, because of a rumor of scandal about her mother. He grows up to become a self educated and benevolent well to do man, and she grows up to be a beautiful and educated woman in a poor family. After his second wife dies leaving behind a young son, he offers to take her back. But, how she responds? Brindabon gives free education to children of the poor in the village, by teaching them himself, and is called by them as Pundit. But, does that earn him respect from the diehard snobs in the village or their compassion in his moment of crisis? Chandranath: A rich man marries a poor young woman, not knowing that her mother had a scandal of living together with a man after she became a widow. The girl, because of her humble background and the scandalous secret about her mother, considers herself much inferior to her husband and treats him with servility. How are the husband's feelings towards her? How the marriage blossoms? A kindly old man comes in their life, and what role he plays? Debt and Payment (Dena-Paona): Jibananda, a corrupt scion of a landlord family, marries the child daughter of a widow for dowry money and then disappears. He later inherits a large estate when his uncle dies and becomes an oppressive feudal landlord. The girl by turn of events becomes the custodian of a temple in a village, where the landlord owns some property. She is upright, educated, and a leader of the downtrodden. The landlord visits the village, but does not recognize her. The virtuous woman and the depraved man cross their path, and what does it bring to them?

Download or read book Bipradas written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bipradas is a bengali language Novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. It was first published on 1935.

Download or read book A History of Indian Literature 1911 1956 struggle for freedom triumph and tragedy written by Sisir Kumar Das and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the Indian literatures, not in isolation in one another, but as related components in a larger complex, conspicuous by the existence of age-old multilingualism and a variety of literary traditions. --

Download or read book Sharat Chandra Ki Lokpriya Kahaniyan written by Sharat Chandra and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: भारतीय भाषाओं के साहित्य में बँगला साहित्य की अपनी अलग पहचान है। इस भाषा के अनेक रचनाकारों ने अपनी लेखनी के दम पर विश्‍व साहित्य पर प्रभुत्व स्थापित किया। ऐसे ही रचनाकारों में बाबू शरतचंद्र चटर्जी का नाम अजर-अमर है। उनका संपूर्ण साहित्य विश्‍व की अनेक भाषाओं में अनुवादित होकर जन-जन में प्रचारित व प्रसारित हुआ। ‘देवदास’; ‘चरित्रहीन’; ‘श्रीकांत’; ‘काशीनाथ’ जैसी रचनाओं का नाम सामने आते ही शरतचंद्र का संपूर्ण व्यक्‍तित्व मानो साकार हो जाता है। शरतचंद्र ने अपने साहित्य में भारतीय समाज की मान्यताओं व परंपराओं को उनके आदर्श़ों सहित यथार्थ रूप में चित्रित किया है। उन्होंने अपने साहित्य में सामाजिक व राजनीतिक समस्याओं के बीच अपनी रोमांटिक प्रवृत्ति की छाप अवश्य छोड़ी है; समाज की कुरीतियों व कुचेष्‍टाओं पर प्रबल प्रहार किए हैं; साथ ही नारी-मन के अंतर्द्वंद्व व पीड़ा का भी मार्मिक चित्रण किया है। शरत बाबू की इन कहानियों में समाज में व्याप्‍त बुराइयों; समस्याओं; पारिवारिक उलझनों को अलग-अलग प्रकार से चित्रित किया गया है। अनेक कहानियाँ ऐसी हैं; जो कभी भुलाई नहीं जा सकेंगी। "Sharat Chandra Ki Lokpriya Kahaniyan" by Sharat Chandra: This book may be a collection of popular short stories by the celebrated Indian author Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay. It likely presents readers with a selection of Sharat Chandra's engaging and emotionally resonant stories. Key Aspects of the Book "Sharat Chandra Ki Lokpriya Kahaniyan" by Sharat Chandra: Short Story Collection: The book may feature a compilation of Sharat Chandra's beloved short stories, known for their portrayal of human emotions and societal issues. Literary Excellence: "Sharat Chandra Ki Lokpriya Kahaniyan" offers readers the opportunity to appreciate Sharat Chandra's literary craftsmanship and his ability to capture the essence of Indian life. Human Emotions: Sharat Chandra's stories often explore complex human emotions and relationships, making them relatable and thought-provoking. Sharat Chandra was a renowned Bengali novelist and short story writer known for his literary contributions in the early 20th century.