Been reading Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.
Fiery pen.
This is the second author I've picked up from Bengal after reading Tagore a few times. All happenschance -- whenever I see the crosswords in the mall I go to nearby, I indulge myself and buy a book.
Srikanta was unputdownable and so were others, Palli Samaj, Brij Bou, Devdas. I started skipping pages the material was so much.
How these guys could fill so many pages. I guess I know -- remember those kids who would took supplements after supplements in the final exam? Some people are born with it.
Or is it that they write because they must -- compelled by desire to express themselves.
Whatever may be the reason, it's good they wrote for I sure appreciate it.
I want to say something of the chars but I've forgotten most of it. If you just want the key takeaway from me like my MBA friends do: Tagore's prose is sophisticated -- elite. His poetry suits more to bollywood. Sarat Guru's prose is raw. Earthy if you believe in that cliche. Suits to bollywood -- Parineeta, Devdas.
But there is a similarity in their writings. Both of them make a commentary on the state of people and the nation in their works which is a joy to read if you are into that kind of stuff -- where you want to find out what them people were like in that age which seems so far away in time, a past which is not ours for we weren't even born then and yet it is somehow.
Fiery pen.
This is the second author I've picked up from Bengal after reading Tagore a few times. All happenschance -- whenever I see the crosswords in the mall I go to nearby, I indulge myself and buy a book.
Srikanta was unputdownable and so were others, Palli Samaj, Brij Bou, Devdas. I started skipping pages the material was so much.
How these guys could fill so many pages. I guess I know -- remember those kids who would took supplements after supplements in the final exam? Some people are born with it.
Or is it that they write because they must -- compelled by desire to express themselves.
Whatever may be the reason, it's good they wrote for I sure appreciate it.
I want to say something of the chars but I've forgotten most of it. If you just want the key takeaway from me like my MBA friends do: Tagore's prose is sophisticated -- elite. His poetry suits more to bollywood. Sarat Guru's prose is raw. Earthy if you believe in that cliche. Suits to bollywood -- Parineeta, Devdas.
But there is a similarity in their writings. Both of them make a commentary on the state of people and the nation in their works which is a joy to read if you are into that kind of stuff -- where you want to find out what them people were like in that age which seems so far away in time, a past which is not ours for we weren't even born then and yet it is somehow.
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