Nabarun Bhattacharya: an introduction

Chattopadhyay, A. and Bhattacharya, S. (2015) Nabarun Bhattacharya: an introduction. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2(Suppl), pp. 1-15.

Abstract

Nabarun Bhattacharya was born in Calcutta in 1948 to Bijan Bhattacharya and Mahasweta Devi, both noted literary personalities. Devi left family for a career in activism and literary writing at a very early age when Nabarun was a kid. He grew up under the guidance and immediate artistic inspiration of Bijan Bhattacharya, whose 1943 Bengal Famine based play Nabanna (New Harvest) had already made a huge impact in the Indian theatre world, and his uncle Ritwik Ghatak, the noted auteur, whose films captured the despairing social conditions of poverty, joblessness, and political bankruptcy in a recently liberated nation. Nabarun’s literary writings were highly alert to the immediate social and political concerns and marked by an ideological faith in Marxism.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Bhattacharya, Dr Sourit
• Authors: Chattopadhyay, A., and Bhattacharya, S.
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature
• Journal Name: Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry
• Publisher: Sanglap
• ISSN: 2349-8064
• ISSN (Online): 2349-8064
• Published Online: 31 August 2015
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2015 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry 2(Supplement): 1-15
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License