BLiterature-Apratim

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Dhatri-Devata, Gana-Devata and Panchagram are called an epic trilogy in
total set in the region of Birbhum. Tarashankar tells us the story of Indian mass
uprising in this trilogy.
Jalsha-Ghar is a novella based on the historical fact of the defeat of feudal
aristocracy to newly emerged bourgeoisie.
Kalindi is a fiction of two political activists from an inhabitance of the Santals –
one of them is a Marxist and the other one, a follower of Gandhi. At the end, both of
them embrace imprisonment and the writer seems to be more sympathetic to the first
one.
Kavi is a tale of a proletariat folk poet who represents the all times Bengali
poetasters.
In some other works, he questions human moral judgment like Tolstoy.
Saptapadi (Seven Circles) and Bicharak (The Judge) are such two works.
Tarashankar followed Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophies surrounding nonviolence.
In his early life, he was a political activist of the Indian National Congress
party. Sometimes he was even imprisoned and persecuted. He joined the anti-
Fascist movement and later became a member of independent India’s parliament.
In literature too, Tarashankar did not follow Marx like Manik. He was a bearer
of an Indian leader’s unique philosophies. Rather he succeeded in the perfection of
artistic achievement and reached the height of fictional art.
Jibanananda Das (1899-1954)
Jibanananda is called the ‘Nilkantha (i.e. Shiva) of endangered humanity’. He
drank the death-poison of man’s inhuman and heartless conscience. His exuberance
and high aim of poetical art surpasses all other poets of the High Modern era
including Yeats and Eliot.
Dhushar Pandulipi (The Gray Manuscript) is his first original attempt. In this
anthology his first encounter with the filthiness of life and the world is revealed. The
book starts with “Nirjan Sakshar” (“The Desolate Sign”) which is a handsome piece
of work by any poet newly entered into the post-war modern world. “Campe” (“At the
Camp”) is the most significant poem of this anthology. Here the poet says we all are
like wild dear murdered by this cruel world because of our desperation and tire of
love. He says –
“We go on living with the valor of love – its longings – dreams – nursing our wounds,
encountering hate – death;
Don’t we?”
(Translated by Fakrul Alam)
In “Pakhira” (“The Birds”) he wishes if we had the taste of simplicity of life and love
like the flying birds. “Mrityur Agey” (“Before Death”) is another memorable piece of
poem. It was praised even by the aged Tagore for its picturesque exposition of
natural image.
Banalata Sen is one of his most popular poetical works. It starts with the
entitling poem which is famed for its romantic exposition. It bears the message that