Tarashankar Bandyapadhyay’s ‘Kabi’ : An Enlightment/ তারাশঙ্কর বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের ‘কবি’ : একটি আলোকিত উদ্ভাসন

Abstract

Tarasankar was quite different from ‘kallol’, ‘kali-kalom’ ‘Uttara’s new ways. He reached and left much of their own previous. So he enters the new model of mdern literature. Then we want to find out the perfect platform which is closely connected with the author. By virtue of being a person from a remote village in Birbhum, he met people from various social and social classes. With their eagerness to talk, he wanted to hear new words in literature. The novel 'Kabi' written about Nitai Kabial of the Dom community belonging to the Lokayat community of Bangladesh is written in this episode. When recalling this village-centric novel, the word 'poet' comes to mind. Hunger and thirst in real flesh-and-blood body are mingling with his desires. Life goes on in its own way. He started writing with strong self-confidence.

          In fact, several characters and events of this novel are directly experienced by the author. In the words of the author, it is known that Raja, Basan, Thakurjhi and even Dwijapada of this novel have become Viprapada. So the discourse of the novel is overshadowed by many real life experiences. Not only in this novel but all his village-centered novels have emerged as a mirror of that direct experience. Tarshankar Bandyapadhyay in this novel did not use poetry only for entertainment; There is a particular tendency at work. These poems enrich the narrative of the novel. Songs became particularly significant in the construction of archetypes in the narrative. The song that comes to mind in the beginning is ‘Kabigan’. From the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, all the entertaining lyrical literature prevalent in urban and rural Bangladesh is commonly known as Kabigan. On the one hand the super familiar character of reality took place, on the other a philosophical understanding through poetry and a search for the larger world through the spirit of music—this was the project presented by Tarashankar.