5/27/2023 0 Comments Srikanta sarat chandra![]() ![]() Sensitive and daring, his novels captivated the hearts and minds of thousands of readers not only in Bengal but all over India. A prolific writer, he found the novel an apt medium for depicting this and, in his hands, it became a powerful weapon of social and political reform. Much of his writing bears the mark of the resultant turbulence of society. Saratchandra came to maturity at a time when the national movement was gaining momentum together with an awakening of social consciousness. ![]() He started writing in his early teens and two stories written then have survived-‘Korel’ and ‘Kashinath’. Saratchandra received very little formal education but inherited something valuable from his father-his imagination and love of literature. His childhood and youth were spent in dire poverty as his father, Motilal Chattopadhyay, was an idler and dreamer and gave little security to his five children. SARATCHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAY (1876-1938) was born in Devanandapur, an obscure village of Bengal. ![]()
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