Volume-II, Issue-II, November 2025
Volume-II, Issue-II, November, 2025 |
Received: 15.11.2025 | Accepted: 21.11.2025 | ||
Published Online: 30.11.2025 | Page No: 268-273 | ||
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.2.issue.02W.206 | |||
নির্বাচিত বাংলা ছোটোগল্প: দেশভাগ ও মানুষের স্বপ্নভঙ্গের আখ্যান ড. আজিমুদ্দিন মণ্ডল, অতিথি অধ্যাপক, রানী ধন্য কুমারী কলেজ, জিয়াগঞ্জ, মুর্শিদাবাদ, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত |
Selected Bengali Short Stories: Narratives of Partition and the Shattering of Human Dreams Dr. Azimuddin Mondal, Guest Lecturer, Rani Dhanya Kumari College, Jiaganj, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
The Partition1 devastated2 the lives and livelihoods of the marginalized people3 in society beyond measure. Independence4 could not bring a new dawn for the uprooted. Contrary to the belief that freedom means the realization of all hopes, aspirations, and dreams, it instead brought clouds of despair in their lives. Those who had promised them a sweet life on the other side were the very ones whose hands committed atrocities5, including the rape of the uprooted people's mothers, sisters and daughters. The stories of the pain and broken dreams caused by Partition have been brought to life by many renowned Bengali writers. Among them are Jyotirmoyee Devi (1894-1988), Ritwik Ghatak (1925-1976) and Debesh Roy (1936-2020). A glance at the narrative worlds of Jyotirmoyee Devi’s ‘Epar Ganga Opar Ganga', Ritwik Ghatak’s 'Shfatikapatra' and Debesh Roy’s 'Udvastu' stories reveal vivid images of the shattered dreams of the displaced people. | ||
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