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Oct 14, 2022 · Oct 14, 2022. 10 min read. The Word for 'Woman' is Forest: An Ecofeminist Reading of Sunil Gangopadhyay’s 'Aranyer Din Ratri'. Sakshi Nadkarni. Illustration by Gowri Guruswamy. The dichotomization of the world– men and women, rural and urban, foreign and indigenous, Western and Eastern, culture and nature, the list goes on– serves only to ...
Feb 1, 2016 · Sunil Gangopadhyay succeeds in this aspect, staying true to the major historical events, while elegantly turning icons of Bengal history into flesh-and-blood characters whose hopes, fears, and ...
Sunil Gangopadhyay's Those Days is Bengal's answer to Tolstoy's War and Peace. Methodologically, both authors have approached the writing in the same way: an influential historical period is chosen — the Bengal Renaissance starting in the 1820s, all the way up to the 1870s in Those Days and the Napoleonic Wars in War and Peace — and characters [both historical and fictional] are used to ...
Sunil Gangopadhyay died at 2:05 AM on 23 October 2012 at his South Kolkata residence, following a heart attack. He was suffering from prostate cancer for some time and went to Mumbai for treatment. Gangopadhyay's body was cremated on 25 October at Keoratola crematorium, Kolkata. He was honored with Ananda Award (1972, 1979) and Sahitya Academy ...
Oct 23, 2012 · Gangopadhyay was born in Faridpur, now in Bangladesh, in 1934, and his family shifted before the partition to Kolkata - a city that saw the flowering of his talent shaped by a passion for reading ...
Sep 23, 2020 · Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly was an Indian poet and novelist in the Bengali language based in the city of Kolkata. He is a former Sheriff of Kolkata. ...
Sunil Gangopadhyay died at 2:05 AM on 23 October 2012 at his South Kolkata residence, following a heart attack. He was suffering from prostate cancer for some time and went to Mumbai for treatment. Gangopadhyay's body was cremated on 25 October at Keoratola crematorium, Kolkata.
