Sudhindranath Dutta
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Sudhindranath Dutta (Bangla: সুধীন্দ্রনাথ দত্ত) (1901-1960) was a Bengali Indian post-modern poet, essayist, journalist and critic. Sudhindranath is one of the most notable poets after the Tagore-era in Bangla literature.
[edit] Education
Sudhindranath Dutt went to school in Varanasi and Kolkata. He later studied English and Law in Scottish Church College, Law College and Calcutta University, all in Kolkata. However, he never completed a degree in either subject.
[edit] Trivia
Sudhindranath Dutta believed that hard work is what is needed for creating art, and the embattled nature of his poetry contrasted with that of the romantic poetry of Jibanananda Das. When Jibanananda Das's poetry notebooks were printed, Dutt commented after seeing the great number of corrections and deletions in the notebooks "Oh, then the natural poets are also unnatural poets, like me!"
Perhaps his most famous line is the widely quoted one from his poem Utpakhi (The ostrich):
অন্ধ হলে কি প্রলয় বন্ধ থাকে? (Ondho hole ki proloy bondho thake?)
Translation: Does hell fail to let loose because you're blind?
[edit] Works
- Tanvi (1930)
- Orchestra (1935)
- Krandasi (1937)
- Uttar Falguni (1940)
- Sangvarta (1950)
- Pratidhvani (1954)
- Dashami (1956)
- Svagata (1938)
- Kulay O Kalpurus (1957)
Topics
History of Bengal · British Raj · Bengali literature · Bengali poetry · Bengali music · Brahmo Samaj · Asiatic Society · Fort William College · Young Bengal · British Indian Association · Swadeshi · Satyagraha · Tattwabodhini Patrika · Sulava Samachar · Anandabazar Patrika · Tagore family · Rabindra Sangeet · Santiniketan · Visva Bharati University · Complete Works of Kazi Nazrul Islam · Vangiya Sahitya Parishad · Sambad Prabhakar
People
Raja Ram Mohan Roy · Ramakrishna Paramahamsa · Henry Derozio · Debendranath Tagore · Keshub Chandra Sen · Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar · John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune · Michael Madhusudan Dutt · Rajnarayan Basu · Dwarkanath Ganguly · Akshay Kumar Datta · Harish Chandra Mukherjee · Sambhunath Pandit · Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan · Kadambini Ganguly · Aghore Nath Gupta · Girish Chandra Sen · Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay · Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay · Sri Aurobindo · Swami Vivekananda · Rabindranath Tagore · Kazi Nazrul Islam · Satyendranath Tagore · Ram Chandra Vidyabagish
