Mithilesh Bhattacharya a Recent Bengali Short Story Writer from Assam as well as Assam : Life and Literature/ উওর-পূর্ব ভারত তথা আসামের সাম্প্রতিক বাংলা ছোটগল্পকার মিথিলেশ ভট্টাচার্য : জীবন ও সাহিত্য

Abstract

Mithilesh Bhattacharya is a short story writer whose name is associated with special importance in the world of Northern and Eastern Bengali literature. He is a very socially and economically conscious writer who is sensitive to the environment. He has been regularly practicing short stories since the sixties and his writing is clear and reflective. His contemporary money, social environment, financial depression, moral decay, the turbulent environment of Assam, the struggle for life, etc. have come up in his stories. The context of his stories is basically the Barak Valley, his stories suggestive of the prevailing picture of Barak's socio-economic environment with the entire country. Present-day Barak Valley is a three-district valley in the southern part of present-day Assam

           The plain Geographically, the Barak Valley is separated from the Brahmaputra Valley by the Barail Attavibhukhand from the greater part of Assam. Manipur and Mizoram states are on the eastern side of the valley, Tripura is on the south, Bangladesh is on the west, and Meghalaya is on the northwest. Valley connected to the defendant by North Cachar District (modern Dimasao District) on the north. So naturally the political ups and downs of Assam involve the political and civil life of Parak with the entire country connected by a national road and railway through the neighbouring hill district of Upachar North and a national highway through the state of Meghalaya. All three Yoga Sutras descend on the mountain's cols, so natural calamities breaking the Eye Sutras are an annual occurrence for Boracay. On top of that, the turbulent environment of the state of Meghalaya when the roadblocks interrupted Barak's communication and after this the author tried to show the pain of this political and economic partition in several stories. The economy of Mithilesh Bhattacharya's stories is particularly noteworthy.