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From my notebook

From my notebook

From my notebook

Franz Kafka: 125

Franz Kafka(1883-1924) has come to be one of the most influential writers of this century. Virtually unknown during his lifetime, Franz Kafka has since been recognized by his anxiety-ridden works to modern readers. Kafka came from a middle-class Jewish family and grew up in the shadow of his domineering shopkeeper father, who impressed Kafka as an awesome patriarch. Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883, the first child of Hermann and Julie Kafka. Franz was sent to German schools, not Czech ones, which demonstrates his father’s desire for social advancement. Franz had been trying his hand in serious writing since 1898, but these early works were destroyed. Later he began writing more seriously. His friend, Max Brod convinced Kafka to publish some of his works, and in January 1913, ‘Meditation’, a collection of some early short stories and sketches, appeared. In most of Kafka’s mature prose, the lucid, concise style forms a striking contrast of complexities, the anxiety-laden absurdities, and the powerfully oppressive symbols of torment and anomie that are substance of the writer’s vision. On the evening of August 13, 1912, Franz met Felice Bauer at Max Brod’s house. In this first flush of love he wrote ‘The Judgment’ on the night of 22-23 September, which he dedicated to Felice. He considered it his first mature work. In November & December he wrote ‘The Metamorphosis’. He also worked at the novel, ‘Amerika’. During this time, in September 1913, he went to a sanatorium in Riva, Italy for his health, and there met an 18yrs old Swiss girl, Gerti Wasner, although this affair only lasted foe 10 days. Meanwhile the courtship by letter of Felice continued. He proposed to her(Felice) in 1913 and she accepted. Despite his failing health, Kafka, became engaged with another lady Julie Whoryzek. As 1924 began, Franz’s health got worse and worse. He was forced to go to a couple of sanatoriums. He agreed to the publication of ‘A Hunger Artist’, with some other stories. He died on June 3, 1924. max Brod did not carry out his friend’s instructions to burn his work. He edited and had published virtually everything Franz wrote. Franz Kafka has become an icon of sorts, emblematic of modern times.

BIKALPA : an aesthetical journal for modern readers…

City-centric popular media can hardly reflect the enormous cultural and literary potentials of Bengal. With a view to ventilating the eternal hope and aesthetic spirit of our culture, BIKALPA, now EBANG BIKALPA, was launched in a new form in 1998. From the debut it was overwhelmingly acclaimed by the writers and readers in no time. During the period BIKALPA has ventured to attract readers by its laconic and meticulous observation. Now it is proved contagious and it brings to cover the whole range of Bengali reading people inside India & abroad.

India had a very reach literary and cultural heritage which demands that we stand on the occasion to stop decaying by means of our literary effort. From now on EBANG BIKALPA would be a definite cultural digest with your fraternity. Let your feeling be ventilated through our own dreamy mag.

Bengali Poetry & Me

Since 1984, I 'm going to start a poetry-life in a small town of  West Bengal named Malda. It is in the mid of Bengal. The river Mahananda and ancient dynasty Gour penetrate me in creative writing. Then I was a little school boy of Malda Zilla School. The mainstream writing of Bengali poetry was far from me due to geographical distance. The mind-scape of the peoples of Malda was too much economy oriented. And for this reason there was no way to fulfill myself in creative studies & writings. Only few bookshops & wheelers are there. A district library was going to ruin by political aggressiveness. For a while I took a venture and was going to publish a little magazine named TRISHA(1984) based on art & literature. This magazine took an important role to motivate readers in new writings. After that a group of writers joined unitedly in this forum - Tridib Gupta, Tuhin Das, Sanjeeb Neogi, Tripti Santra, Asim Sharma, Debabrata Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartharanjan Choudhury and so many writers and artists were joining in this forum. In 1990, I went to Calcutta for my study in JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY. Then I saw the mainstream reality of Indian literature and took part in this field. Maestros of Bengali literature(as Arun Mitra, Annadashankar Roy, Shankha Ghosh, Debesh Roy, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Shakti Chattopadhyay, Sripantha alias Nikhil Kumar Sarkar etc.) were coming so close to me. I was astonished with fear & surprise. After completion of my study I was thrown by my fallen careergraph in my native-city. Depression, political chaos covered me for many years. In this period I fell in love with Sampa and was going to revive myself from this phase. Mr. Bijesh Saha, the publisher, owner of PRATIVASH gave me a proposal to publish a poetry-book from his house. It was 2005 Mr. Saha published my book CAREERGRAPH in a colorful inauguration ceremony at BANGLA ACADEMY in presence of Sunil Gangopadhyay, Dibyendu Palit and many prestigious personalities. It was a turning point in my life. Now a days I'm innovating me in new diction and genres of literature. There was also a way to publish my own ideas and readings in a new magazine named BIKALPA(1998-2009), after getting govt. of India's approval which turned into EBANG BIKALPA(2009). It is the only way to get tuned myself in recent writings. Now BENHUSH SONNET(moreover 100 sonnets) and PAKHIDER UPOKULE EKA(a novel written in poetry form) are ready to make their appearance.