Volume-I, Issue-III, March 2025
Volume-I, Issue-III, January, 2025 |
নির্বাচিত বাংলা ছোটোগল্পে কর্ণ-কুন্তী
কথার বিবর্তন
সঞ্চারী হালদার, গবেষক, বাংলা বিভাগ,
প্রেসিডেন্সি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, কলকাতা, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত |
Received: 17.01.2025 | Accepted: 25.01.2025 | Published Online: 30.01.2025 | Page No: 753-761 |
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.1.issue.03W.065 | |||
The Evolution of Karna-Kunti Dialogue in Selected Bengali Short Stories
Sanchari Halder, Research Scholar, Dept. of
Bengali, Presidency University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
Mahabharata, the great epic of India has encouraged people to think afresh
throughout the ages. The story and characters of Mahabharata has been mentioned
several times in modern Bengali short stories, to express the tone of time and
society. Modern society wants to judge Mahabharata as a book of social
experience. In the present article, four short stories are selected
for discussion. They are based on the relationship of Karna and Kunti. The names
of the texts are ‘Kounteya’ by Subodh Ghosh, ‘Kunti Songbad’ by Samaresh Basu,
‘Karna-Kunti Katha’ by Jyotirmoyee Devi and ‘Adhirath Sutaputra’ by Amalendu
Chakraborty. Kunti and Karna are two very important characters of Mahabharata. In
these modern stories, Karna is mostly represented as a lonely man of modern
times, who is suffering from existential crisis and Kunti represents the virgin
mother who sacrificed his child for social dogma. The dialectic relationship between
the mother and son has repeatedly evoked modern writers. Those Bengali writers gave new significance to Karna and
Kunti by analyzing it from different perspectives. They try to uncover the true
essence of the characters by filling the gaps in classical literature. In this
process the past is re-examined by judging events from a modern perspective.
Besides, the characters of present society
have been compared and recognized in the light of Mahabharata. These
Mahabharata-centric works occupy a special place in the trend of
post-independence Bengali fiction practice. | ||
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