AN UNPRECEDENTED PORTRAYAL OF A RECIPROCAL AMIABLE CONNEXION BETWEEN THE BENGALI LITERATURE CONTEMPLATION AND WEST BENGAL STUDENT STATECRAFT: 1970-80
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i3.2024.5337Abstract [English]
The contemporary political and socio-economical contexts have simultaneously scoured and influenced the practical semiotic of literary orbit and also concussed the attitudinal ambience of student politics. Though literature is not confined to any specific time like a mameluke but it is tenacious to realize the emergence of the light without unbolting the wrappage from which the author gives the rays of genius. Therefore literature becomes a form in which the true reflection of the entire human thought is revealed. Contrariwise the student politics often take harbor of these literary themes for the advancement of their psychological embellishment because it seeks to give clarity to their political awareness. Moreover the prominent period of 1970- 80s created such a tumultuous atmosphere in both literature and politics of West Bengal especially around the Naxalbadi contexts which converted it into a decade of liberation and introspection. Among the popular novelists Devesh Roy, Loknath Bhattacharjee, Samaresh Basu, Boren Gangopadhyay, Mahashweta Devi; the poets like Buddhadev Guha, Kamal Sen, Sameer Roy, Ajit Mukherjee, Dhurjaty Chattopadhyay; the short stories of the authors like Swarna Mittra, Sankar Bose, Timirbaran Singh,Shirshendu Mukharjee have drastically recounted the contemporaneous socio-political endeavor in their compositions. On the other hand, the student politics has faced the Naxalbadi context, Durgapur engineering student movement, multiple splits and turmoil regarding ideological basis which resulted it in a major shift of attention of the students from the gradual state politics towards the ethnic educational demands in this period. Therefore the main purpose of this work is to ratiocinate the interaction of student politics with the literary works of that period which will inspire the subsistent generation by embellishing both the spirit of literary composition and political cognition and foster the process of revisiting the historical adherence.
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