Best novels of bibhutibhushan bandopadhyay

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, one of the greatest novelists writing in the Bengali language and certainly one of the finest in the literary history of the world, was born on 12 th September, in his maternal residence in Muratipur near Kalyani. He was a traveling narrator, a wandering minstrel earning his bread by narrating stories from Hindu Mythologies in village gatherings.

His second wife Mrinalini gave birth to five children, Bibhutibhushan being the eldest.

The quest for glittering jewels by bibhutibhushan bandopadhyay

But before he could pass out from high school, the untimely death of his father put him into severe financial hardships. The financial adversities magnified when he entered Ripon College in Kolkata. Struggling against the economic odds, he managed to pass I. In the same year, he enrolled himself for a post graduate degree in Philosophy at Calcutta University as well as for a law degree in its Law College but because of financial and other compulsions could complete neither courses.

Next July, after completing his B. His first marital stint, however, ended suddenly in November when Gouri died of Pneumonia Cholera, according to some sources while visiting her parents in Panitar. He remained in this profession all through his life, albeit with occasional intermissions. His career as a school teacher started at Jangipara School in Hoogly at a monthly salary of fifty rupees.

Seizing the opportunity, Bibhutibhushan traveled widely in East Bengal, Tripura. Assam and Arakan, sometimes by train, sometimes by boat and often on foot, till the end of A year later he accepted the job of supervising the vast forest estate of Khelatchandra in Northern Bihar as his Estate Manager and moved on to Bhagalpur. It was here in Bhagalpur that he started writing his masterpiece PatherPanchali and met eminent editors like Upendranath Ganguly of Bichitra and Sudhirchandra Sarkar of Mouchak.