Manik Bandopadhyay

Manik Bandopadhyay
Manik Bandopadhyay
Born	Prabodh Kumar Bandhopaddhay; 19 May 1908; Dumka, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died	3 December 1956 (aged 48); Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Writer
Spouse(s)	Kamala Devi

Manik Bandopadhyay (Manik Bandopadhyay (help·info); 19 May 1908^[1] – 3 December 1956) was an Indian writer and novelist, regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century Bengali literature.^[2] During a lifespan of 48 years, battling with illness and financial crisis, he produced 36 novels and nearly 250 short stories. His notable works include Padma Nadir Majhi^[3] (The Boatman on The River Padma, 1936) and Putul Nacher Itikatha (The Puppet's Tale, 1936), Shahartali (Suburbia, 1941) and Chatushkone (The Quadrilateral, 1948).^[4]

Early life[]

Bandopadhyay was born on 19 May 1908 in Dumka, a small town in Santal Parganas district in the state of Bihar in British India in a Bengali Kulin Brahmin family. His real name was Prabodh Kumar Bandhopaddhay. Owing to his dark complexion, he was known to his family members as Kala Manik (black diamond), or simply Manik.^[5] His ancestral home was in Malapadiya village of Bikrampur, in Dhaka district (present-day Bangladesh) His father Sri Harihar Bandopadhyay was a sub-register (magistrate) officer who had been working in different parts of the then Bengal like Calcutta, Bihar, Tangail, Brammanbaria etc. due to government rules.^[6] He was the fifth of the fourteen children of his parents, Harihar Bandopadhyay and Niroda Devi.^[5] Harihar was a sub-registrar who was posted in different parts of Bengal.^[5] This gave Manik to experience life and living of people in different parts of Bengal in his early life.^[1]

Literary life[]

Once while he was with his friends in their college canteen, one of them asked him if he could publish a story in the magazine Bichitra. The would-be novelist replied that his first story would be good enough for the purpose. At that time, Bichitra was a leading periodical which carried stories only by eminent authors. Manik walked into the office of the periodical and dropped the story Atashi Mami (Aunt Atashi) in their letter box.^[5] At the end of the story he signed off as Manik Bandhopadhay. After four months, publication of the story (in 1928) created sensation in the literary circles of Bengal and, from then on, the pen name stuck.

Social and political views[]

Manik carefully read Marx and Engels and became a Marxist. He became an active politician of Marxism by joining the Communist Party of India in 1944.^[5]

Works[]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Subodh Kapoor (2002). The Indian Encyclopaedia: Mahi-Mewat. Cosmo Publications. p. 4605. ISBN 978-81-7755-272-0.
^ Bardhan, Kalpana, ed. (1990). Of Women, Outcastes, Peasants, and Rebels: A Selection of Bengali Short Stories. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 19.^{[dead link]}^{[ISBN missing]}
^ ; Sukrita Paul Kumar (2007). Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature. Pearson Education India. p. 254. ISBN 978-81-317-0637-4.
^ Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee (2008). "Manik Bandopadhyay: A Centenary Tribute" in the Indian Literature.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Shamsad Mortuza (21 May 2018). "A Hunger Artist". The Daily Star. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
^ "Bandyopadhyay, Manik - Banglapedia". en.banglapedia.org. Banglapedia.

External links[]

[Kapoor2002-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Subodh Kapoor (2002). The Indian Encyclopaedia: Mahi-Mewat. Cosmo Publications. p. 4605. ISBN 978-81-7755-272-0.

[2] Bardhan, Kalpana, ed. (1990). Of Women, Outcastes, Peasants, and Rebels: A Selection of Bengali Short Stories. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 19.^{[dead link]}^{[ISBN missing]}

[LalKumar2007-3] ; Sukrita Paul Kumar (2007). Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature. Pearson Education India. p. 254. ISBN 978-81-317-0637-4.

[4] Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee (2008). "Manik Bandopadhyay: A Centenary Tribute" in the Indian Literature.

[hunger-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Shamsad Mortuza (21 May 2018). "A Hunger Artist". The Daily Star. Retrieved 21 May 2018.

[6] "Bandyopadhyay, Manik - Banglapedia". en.banglapedia.org. Banglapedia.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

show v t Bengali Renaissance
People	Sri Aurobindo Atul Prasad Sen Rajnarayan Basu Jagadish Chandra Bose Subhash Chandra Bose Satyendra Nath Bose Madhusudan Gupta Bethune Upendranath Brahmachari Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Akshay Kumar Datta Henry Derozio Alexander Duff Michael Madhusudan Dutt Romesh Chunder Dutt Anil Kumar Gain Kadambini Ganguly Monomohun Ghose Ramgopal Ghosh Aghore Nath Gupta David Hare Kazi Nazrul Islam Eugène Lafont Mahanambrata Brahmachari Ashutosh Mukherjee Kalikrishna Mitra Harish Chandra Mukherjee Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Gour Govinda Ray Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury Raja Ram Mohan Roy Meghnad Saha Akshay Chandra Sarkar Mahendralal Sarkar Brajendra Nath Seal Girish Chandra Sen Keshub Chandra Sen Haraprasad Shastri Debendranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore Satyendranath Tagore Jnanadanandini Devi Fanindra Nath Gooptu Sitanath Tattwabhushan Brahmabandhav Upadhyay Ram Chandra Vidyabagish Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Swami Vivekananda Paramahansa Yogananda Begum Rokeya
Culture	Bengali literature Bengali poetry Bengali music Bangiya Sahitya Parishad Bhadralok Brahmoism Brahmo Samaj Gaudiya Math Mahanam Sampraday Nazrul geeti Rabindra Nritya Natya Rabindra Sangeet Sambad Prabhakar Satyagraha Self-Realization Fellowship Yogoda Satsanga Swadeshi Tattwabodhini Patrika Young Bengal
Education	Chittagong College Indian Statistical Institute Hindu School Jadavpur University Presidency University University of Calcutta Bethune College University of Dhaka Visva-Bharati University

show Authority control
General	Integrated Authority File (Germany) 2 ISNI 1 VIAF 1 WorldCat
National libraries	Norway France (data) United States Australia Israel Netherlands 2 Poland
Scientific databases	CiNii (Japan)
Other	Faceted Application of Subject Terminology SUDOC (France) 1 2 Trove (Australia) 1