There was always a rebel figure fascination with Michael Madhusudan Dutt
3 years, 10 months ago

There was always a rebel figure fascination with Michael Madhusudan Dutt

Live Mint  

“The idea of Ravana elevates and kindles my imagination; he was a grand fellow,” wrote Michael Madhusudan Dutt to his friend Raj Narain Basu in 1861. In the same letter, the poet and dramatist calls himself an “industrious dog” for having finished, in just one and a half years, what the scholar William Radice calls “the only true classic of Bengali literature.” In his free-verse epic Meghnadbadh Kabya, Dutt upturned the Hindu hierarchy by focusing on a rakshasa—the unfair slaying of Raavan’s son Meghnad by Lakshman—rather than a God. Betrayed By Hope: A play on the life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt is a contemporary look at the life of one of 19th century India’s most tragic literary figures. There was always a rebel figure fascination with Michael Madhusudan Dutt but other than Meghnadbadh Kabya people really don’t know much about the man.

India Kolkata English Life Hope Bengali Hindu Bangladeshi Bangla Milton Bengal Michael Wrote His Friend Letters His Work Dutt Tagore Namita Gokhale His Letters William Radice Kabya Michael Madhusudan Dutt Meghnadbadh Kabya Meghnadbadh Malashri Lal  letters  kabya  madhusudan  life  hope  wrote  dutt  meghnadbadh  bangla  figure  michael  rebel  tagore  fascination

Discover Related