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Book Review: Dharmatattva (Hardcover) by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (also spelledChatterjee) (1838-1894) is an Indian author who is credited for establishing prose as a literary vehicle for the Bengali language. He was a member of an orthodox Brahmin family and was educated at Hooghly College, at Presidency College, Calcutta, and at the University of Calcutta, of which he was one of the first graduates. From 1858, until his retirement in 1891, he served as a deputy magistrate in the Indian civil service.
His novels are considered exciting to read but structurally faulty. His achievements, however, outweigh these technical imperfections.His first notable Bengali work was the novel Durgeshnandini(lit. Daughter of the Fort). It was written in 1865, which critics say was modelled somewhat afterScottish historian, novelist,and playwright Sir Walter Scott’s 3-volume historical novel Ivanhoe, written in 1819. Admirers have mistakenly claimed that with this work of Bankim the Bengali novel was fully born.[The factis: the first Bengali novel was Karuna O Phulmonir Bibaran (lit. Description of Phulmani and Karuna), written in 1852 by an Englishwoman, a Christian missionary,by the name of Hannah Catherine Mullens. She wrote the book for converted Christian women as a handbook to lead a good Christian life in India.]
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The hands on the clock #poem by Bohdan Yuri
“The hands on the clock are broken,
time has caught its first desperate chill.
my present is forced to survive guilt
inside the space of misdeeds and sins.”
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Maples & Oranges #03 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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