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Narayan Sanyal

Born

in Krishnanagar, West Bengal, India

April 26, 1924

Died

February 07, 2005

Genre

History, Nonfiction, Science

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Narayan Sanyal (bn: নারায়ণ সান্যাল) was a well-known & versatile writer of modern Bengali literature. He received several awards for literature including Rabindra Puraskar for Aporupa Ajanta (Bangla: অপরূপা অজন্তা) in 1969, Bankim Puraskar for Rupmonjori (Bangla: রূপমঞ্জরী) in 2000, and Narasingha Dutta Award. Many of his books were filmed and he won the Best Film Story Writer Award for Shotyokam (Bangla: সত্যকাম) by Bengal Film Journalists.

Sanyal wrote numerous books that dealt with many topics, such as children, science, art and architecture, travels, psychiatry, technology, refugee problems, history, biographical pieces, encyclopedia of animals, social novel and Devadasi-related. He also wrote a series of detective fiction called the Ka Narayan Sanyal (bn: নারায়ণ সান্যাল) was a well-known & versatile writer of modern Bengali literature. He received several awards for literature including Rabindra Puraskar for Aporupa Ajanta (Bangla: অপরূপা অজন্তা) in 1969, Bankim Puraskar for Rupmonjori (Bangla: রূপমঞ্জরী) in 2000, and Narasingha Dutta Award. Many of his books were filmed and he won the Best Film Story Writer Award for Shotyokam (Bangla: সত্যকাম) by Bengal Film Journalists.

Sanyal wrote numerous books that dealt with many topics, such as children, science, art and architecture, travels, psychiatry, technology, refugee problems, history, biographical pieces, encyclopedia of animals, social novel and Devadasi-related. He also wrote a series of detective fiction called the Kanta (Thorn) series, the framework of which was borrowed from the Perry Mason series of novels by Erle Stanley Gardner. Some of the stories were inspired from popular Agatha Christie novels like Mousetrap, ABC Murders, etc.

Interestingly, this talented author also preferred writing books on deep shadow of many world famous works. One of the most popular Sci-Fictions Nakshatraloker Debatatma (Bangla: নক্ষত্রলোকের দেবাত্মা) is based on the transformation of human race from primitive creature to civilized intelligent species controlling the whole earth. Then it deals with Jupiter exploration and a super intelligent Computer HAL. The three parted book is a clear shadow of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. In his book, NS renamed HAL as 'Jantra-Na.' In his mother tongue Bangla, it means 'Not a Machine'.

His most popular work is Biswasghatak (Bangla: বিশ্বাসঘাতক) written about the Manhattan project that developed the first US Atom Bomb. This book is based on the shadow of Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists (1970), by Austrian Robert Jungk. Not a shadow, but almost translation in some parts. Few of the illustrations in this book have been taken from few Russian school level books.

Another book Timi Timingil (Bangla: তিমি তিমিঙ্গিল) is on Whales. This stands on an article published in Readers Digest. But while NS accepted this for Timi Timingil, he never mentioned or thanked authors of 2001 or Brighter.

Most of the "Kanta" series stories were copied or heavily inspired from Perry Mason novels. For example, "Ristedar-er Kanta" was copied from The case of the beautiful beggar, "Abhipurbak Ni-Dhatu Au-er Kanta" was inspired from The case of the restless redhead. Some of the stories were inspired from Agatha Christie stories. For example, "Dress Rehearsal-er Kanta" was inspired from Three Act Tragedy. NS acknowledged his inspirations in his first few "Kanta" series books, but forgot to do so for the latter ones.

Thousands of NS fans feel sorry of this as a man of his talent could have developed something even better instead of just 'Copying' and retouching others works while he had indeed produced some excellent works himself.

But it is undoubtedly accepted by all that NS was one of the finest authors in Bengali and he was a class apart from the flock of contemporary Bengali writers those who too dependent on sentiment and emotional overdose in their writings and too dependent on monopolist Bengali media/publication groups in commercial front. ...more

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	বিশ্বাসঘাতক 4.62 avg rating — 1,489 ratings — published 1974 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	কাঁটায়-কাঁটায় ১ 4.26 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	প্রবঞ্চক 4.47 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	সোনার কাঁটা (কাঁটা #2) 3.89 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	উলের কাঁটা (কাঁটা #7) 3.96 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	নাগচম্পা (কাঁটা #1) 4.05 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1969 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	কাঁটায়-কাঁটায় ২ by Narayan Sanyal, নারায়ন সান্যাল 4.33 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ঘড়ির কাঁটা 4.21 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1977 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	'আমি নেতাজীকে দেখেছি' 4.40 avg rating — 139 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	অ-আ-ক-খুনের কাঁটা (কাঁটা #8) 3.91 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“তাই আমি ‘প্লী’টা বদল করতে চাই, য়োর অনার! ভোট দিয়ে যাঁদের দেশশাসক বানিয়েছি – তারা হয়ে উঠেছে দেশশোষক! পার্লামেন্টারি ডেমোক্রেসিতে এর একমাত্র প্রতিষেধক: স্ট্রং অপোজিশান: দুর্নীতিমুক্ত শক্তিশালী বিরোধীপক্ষ! এ-দেশে সেটা আকাশকুসুম! কী প্রাদেশিক সরকারে, কী কেন্দ্রে! সর্বত্রই শুধু পার্টিবাজি, গ্রুপবাজি, নির্লজ্জ খাওয়া-খাওয়ি। পার্টি নেতৃত্বে উপরে ওঠার জন্য সহযোদ্ধাকে লেঙ্গি মারা।
এই যখন দেশের অবস্থা তখন কার দিকে ভরসা করে তাকাবে নিপীড়িত দেশের সাধারণ মানুষ? শেষ ভরসাস্থল ছিল: সংবাদপত্র; শেষ আশ্রয়স্থল ছিল সাহিত্যিকেরা। রামমোহন-বিদ্যাসাগর-বঙ্কিম-হরিশচন্দ্র-দীনবন্ধু-রবীন্দ্রনাথের উত্তরসূরীরা। কিন্তু ঐ মুষ্টিমেয় ক্ষমতাদর্পীর বিকৃতচিন্তায় আমরা সেখানেও আশাহত। ঐ হারিত-জারিত-লারিত গবেষণা করে জানাচ্ছেন: “রামমোহন রায় কিংবা দেবেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুরের ডিনার টেবিলে সুরাপান”-এর আয়োজন হত এবং সেটাই তাঁদের বিষয়ে মুখ্য আলোচ্য-বিষয়! বঙ্কিম বাঙলা লিখতে ঠিক জানতেন না। আর হরিশচন্দ্র মুখার্জী ─ সেই আদর্শ সাংবাদিক, যিনি নীলবিদ্রোহের বার্তা তাঁর পত্রিকায় প্রকাশ করার প্রচেষ্টায় বস্তুত প্রাণ দিলেন ─ তাঁর সম্বন্ধে এঁদের বক্তব্য “দেশপ্রেমিক হরিশ মুখার্জীর পরদারগমনের উল্লেখই অনেকের কাছে ভয়াবহ বোধ হয়।”
― Narayan Sanyal, মান মানে কচু

tags: yellow-journalism

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“হয়তো সে হতভাগ্য একলা, জোট-নিরপেক্ষ, অন্তেবাসী! বাকি নিরানব্বইজন এককাট্টা! ঘাড় ধরে ওরা লোকটাকে বার করে দেবে রাজসভা থেকে।
দিক। কালীপ্রসন্ন সিংহের মহাভারত সেও পড়েছে। জানে, বিকর্ণকে বরদাস্ত করেনি স্বাধিকারপ্রমত্তের দল। লোকটা সভাত্যাগ করে চলে যাবে, হয়তো লোকালয় থেকেও উচ্ছেদ করা হবে তাকে। চলে যাবে অরণ্যে। তবে মাথা খাড়া রেখেই।
অন্তেবাসী, অরণ্যচারী, “বুনো” হয়ে যাওয়া অসামাজিক, অশোভন, হতে পারে - সেটা অমর্যাদার, অগৌরবের নয়।”
― Narayan Sanyal, আবার সে এসেছে ফিরিয়া

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