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Fariad Book Info
- Book name: Faried pdf
- Author name: Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
- Category: Novel
- Total pages: 71
- File size: 06 MB
Bandyopadhyay was born at his ancestral home at
Labhpur village in
Birbhum district,
Bengal Province,
British India (now West Bengal, India) to Haridas Bandyopadhyay and Prabhabati Devi.
House of Tarashankar Banerjee at Labhpur, Birbhum
He passed the Matriculation examination from Labhpur Jadablal H. E. School in 1916 and was later admitted first to
St. Xavier's College, Calcutta and then to South Suburban College (now
Asutosh College). While studying in intermediate at St. Xavier's College, he joined the
non-co-operation movement. He could not complete his university course due to ill health and political activism.
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During these college years, he was also associated with a radical
militant youth group and was arrested and interned in his village.
[6]
He was arrested in 1930 for actively supporting the
Indian independence movement, but released later that year. After that he decided to devote himself to literature.
[7] In 1932, he met
Rabindranath Tagore at
Santiniketan for the first time. His first novel
Chaitali Ghurni was published on the same year.
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In 1940, he rented a house at
Bagbazar and brought his family to Calcutta. In 1941, he moved to
Baranagar.
In 1942, he presided over the Birbhum District Literature Conference
and became the president of the Anti-Fascist Writers and Artists
Association in Bengal. In 1944, he presided over the Kanpur Bengali
Literature Conference arranged by the non-resident Bengalis living
there. In 1947, he inaugurated Prabasi Banga Sahitya Sammelan held in
Calcutta; presided over the Silver Jubilee Prabasi Banga Sahitya
Sammelan in Bombay; and received Sarat Memorial Medal from the
University of Calcutta. In 1948, he moved to his own house at Tala Park, Calcutta.
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In 1952, he was nominated to be a member of the legislative
assembly. He was a member of the West Bengal Vidhan Parishad between
1952–60. In 1954, he took
Diksha from his mother. In 1955, he was awarded the
Rabindra Puraskar by the
Government of West Bengal. In 1956, he received the
Sahitya Akademi Award. In 1957 he visited
Soviet Union to join the preparatory committee of the Afro-Asian Writers' Association and later went to
Tashkent
at an invitation from the Chinese Government as the leader of the
Indian Writers delegation at the Afro-Asian Writers' Association.
In 1959, he received the Jagattarini Gold Medal from the
University of Calcutta, and presided over All India Writer's Conference
in Madras. In 1960, he retired from the West Bengal Legislative Assembly but was nominated to the Parliament by the President of India. He was a member of Rajya Sabha between 1960–66. In 1962, he received Padma Shri;
but the death of his son-in-law broke his heart and to keep himself
diverted he took to painting and making wooden toys. In 1963, he
received Sisirkumar Award. In 1966, he retired from the Parliament and
presided over Nagpur Bengali Literature Conference. In 1966, he won the Jnanpith Award and in 1969, he received Padma Bhushan and was honoured with the title of Doctor of Literature by the University of Calcutta and the Jadavpur University. In 1969, he was given the fellowship of Sahitya Akademi, in 1970 became the president of Bangiya Sahitya Parishad/Vangiya Sahitya Parishad. In 1971, he gave the Nripendrachandra Memorial Lecture at Visva-Bharati University and D. L. Roy Memorial Lecture at the University of Calcutta.
Bandyopadhyay died at his Calcutta residence early in the morning
on 14 September 1971. His last rites were performed at the Nimtala
Cremation Ground, North Calcutta.
