Volume-I, Issue-V, May 2025 > Volume-I, Issue-VI, July 2025
Volume-I, Issue-VI, July, 2025 |
Received: 20.07.2025 | Accepted: 22.07.2025 | ||
Published Online: 31.07.2025 | Page No: 1306-1314 | ||
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.1.issue.06W.134 | |||
কমলকুমার মজুমদারের ‘খেলার প্রতিভা’ উপন্যাসে লোক-উপাদান হিমাদ্রি শেখর চক্রবর্তী, সহযোগী অধ্যাপক, বাংলা বিভাগ, ধিং মহাবিদ্যালয়, ধিং, নগাঁও, অসম, ভারতড. সঞ্জয় ভট্টাচার্য, সহযোগী অধ্যাপক, বাংলা বিভাগ, গৌহাটি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, গুয়াহাটি, অসম, ভারত |
Folk Elements in Kamalkumar Majumdar’s Novel Khelar Pratibha Himadri Shekhar Chakraborty, Associate Professor, Department of Bengali, Dhing College, Dhing, Nagaon, Assam, India Dr. Sanjay Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, Department of Bengali, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
Kamalkumar Majumdar (1914-1979) is almost unanimously known as well as famed as one of the most mystical writers in the field of Bengali literature. Though he did not get any traditional education, surprisingly Kamalkumar accumulated a vast world of knowledge from different spheres of life. Before Independence he earned money through maritime export-import, pisciculture and spent a luxurious life. But after Independence, he changed himself into an ordinary Bengali gentleman in dhuti and panjabi. At this time, he did not have any permanent job but was busy with a variety of temporary jobs associated with arts and crafts, book illustration, literary criticism in several literary magazines and business of antiques. After getting a permanent job in South Point School as an Art & Craft teacher, he led his life in a more settled and secured way. In the meantime, Kamalkumar got an opportunity to come in contact with the census work of the rural life and culture of Bengal which was offered by ICS Ashok Mitra in 1951. Associating himself with this census, Kamalkumar discovered the great identity of rural Bengal and in the novel ‘Khelar Pratibha’, he sketched the life of farmers with their folk culture and beliefs in the background of tidal flood-affected rural south Bengal. Though flood ruined their crops and inundated their establishments with saline water that spoiled the fertility of the soil, those poor farmers did not forget their humanities and cultural uniqueness which were their inner strength to live in this world.In the novel ‘Khelar Pratibha’, Kamlkumar Majumdar adroitly unveiled the unshaken, invincible spirit of these sons of the soil who faced the hostile natural conditions and kept their art, culture and unique cultural identity alive in rumination, with an effortless ease. In ‘Kamalkumar Majumdarer ‘Khelar Pratibha’ Uponyase Loko-Upadan’, we are going to look into how Kamalkumar explored the folk elements in this novel. | ||
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