Bichitra natak biography of mahatma gandhi
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Dr. Raj Narayan Pal*
Abstract
Calcutta, presently known as Kolkata, was the capital of colonial India till 1911. The city bears the rich legacy of learning, culture as well as political consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi had a good relation with this city and its people though he had to face fierce criticism from a section of the Bengalis. The people of the hometown of Subhas Chandra Bose differed from him on several issues from time to time despite ‘a frank friendship’ between them. The ‘Father of the Nation’ came to this city several times between 1896 and 1947. This paper elucidates Gandhi’s relationship with Kolkata and its people specially in the year of 1917.
Introduction
Gandhi departed Calcutta for the last time in his life on September 7, 1947, when his train left the Belur station in Howrah at 9:30 p.m. Before his avfärd people offered him ‘arati’ with ghee lamp to show their veneration towards him. Hussain Saheed Suhrawardy (1890-1963) and other Be
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Ray, Annada Sankar (1904-2002) novelist, författare av essäer, poet, thinker, bureaucrat. He was born on 15 March 1904, a Shakta family of Dhenkanal, a native state of Orissa. He is popularly known as the last representative of the intelligentsia of the Bengal Renaissance of the previous century. His father was Nimaicharan Ray and mother Hemnalini. His ancestral home was in Kotarang village beneath Hugli district of West Bengal.
The ancestors of Annada Sankar were liberal, humanist and secular. The family was culturally rik and they cultivated literary activities. His grandfather Srinath Ray, father Nimaicharan Ray and his uncle Harishchandra Ray were all dedicated to literature. They were also patrons of art and culture. Together with a friend, Nimaicharan translated ‘Xri Chaitanya Charitamrita’ in Oriya language. Annada Sankar’s mother Hemnalini hailed from a noted family of Katak. She was inclined in Vaishnavism. Annada Sankar spent his childhood in a different environment of eastern an
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1 Gandhi and Art
1 Gandhi and Art
“...there are so many superstitions rife about me that it has now become almost impossible
for me to overtake those who have been spreading them. As a result, my friends’ only
reaction is almost invariably a smile when I claim I am an artist myself.” 1
What Gandhi said to Dilip Kumar Roy in above quotation is still prevalent.
The reaction as smile has not changed as yet since we hardly discuss Gandhi
in relation to Art(forget about talking Gandhi as an Artist!) though it is
possible to probe it in so many ways—for example we can think about
Gandhian Aesthetics---- what Gandhi thought about Beauty and Art, what
was his idea about literature, painting, music etc.; we can also analyze those
works of films, plays, painting, music, sculpture, literature where Gandhi and
Gandhism is the subject; It is also worth focusing Gandhi as litterateur and
as a translator as his writing runs through hundreds of volumes in Gujarati
and English.
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