Some Trends Of The Post-Independence Period : Seen, Short Stories Of Kamalkumar Majumdar/ স্বাধীনতা পরবর্তী সময়ের কয়েকটি প্রবণতা : প্রেক্ষিত - কমলকুমার মজুমদারের গল্প

Abstract

Kamalkumar Majumdar (1914-1979) is an exceptional name in Bengali literature. He is best known for his unique writing style. He has been active throughout his life in keeping his writing alive from the confines of political, business and advertisement. The literal language used by him is unconventional and the style of writing is out of ordinary. Most of the stories were published in little magazines, which gave him a lot of freedom to write. He started writing stories from the 30s. The early stories written by him are far-fetched in terms of subject matter, even though they are standing in the context of Bengal, which has been uprooted for political reasons. The male-female relationship have their innermost as art-form in all there stories. In the interim, the language of the story was simple and the Bengali syntaxtual deviation was unheeded.

         In 1947 came the moment of our Independence. A turning point of Bengali literature had begun. Kamalkumar had shown the calamities in the history of Bengal in a different way in his stories. In his various stroies, the political issues were explained from his own point of view. He did not follow the trend of that era, and used to bring up the contemporary issues much earlier than other, according to his own will. Otherwise, why would he wrote about Swadeshi movement in ‘Tahader Katha’ in 1958, why he wrote ‘Rukminikumar’ even after ten years. In 1948, he wrote a story ‘Jal’ about the natural disaster in Medinipur and the famine in Bengal. The history of Tebhaga movement is rooted in the story of ‘Teish’. Some of the trends of post-independence period have been upholded in his various stories. For example, ‘Khelar Bichar’, ‘Bagan Daibabani’ explains how European’s modernity was to filtrate the Bengali character. ‘Bagan Keyari’ is a real picture of urbanization. The food crisis and disparity between the rich and poor are reflected in the story of ‘Neem Annapurna’ and ‘Khelar Bichar’.‘Mallika Bahar’ depicts the position of women in the changing society of the 20^th century. ‘Khelar Arambha’ and ‘Kal e Aatatayee’ story have shown the image of Bengal bloodied by the Naxalite movement at that time. He found a way to escape from the shelter of spirituality in the decadence of Bengali culture and values. Kamalkumar wanted to settle the violent affected people in the backwardness. He always yearned for a holy world. He himself stood out as a distinct trend in this urge to prevent the destruction of humanity.