Pramatha Nath Choudhuri

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30/05/2015
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BORN TO BE REMEMBER AFTER 147 YEAR... PRAMATHA NATH CHOUDHURI ... WATER COLOUR...5 INCH*7INCH ...2015 ...Pramathanath Chaudhuri (Bengali: ???????? ??????) (7 August 1868 – 2 September 1946), known as Pramatha Chaudhuri, alias Birbal, is an exceptionally illuminating persona in modern Bengali literature. It is astounding how he kept hold of his uniqueness in all-pervasive era of Rabindranath Tagore. As the editor of Sabuj Patra ("Green Leaves",1914) and the mentor of the group that gathered around this journal, Chaudhuri left a lasting legacy to the literature of Bengal. Profoundly patriotic and a stated cosmopolitan, aficionado of Sanskrit, Pramatha Chaudhuri had immense faith in the native genius of the Bengali. “Today if the traditional high Bengali with its stilted Sanskritic elements makes place, more and more, for a form of spoken Bengali, if ‘current’ Bengali is considered an effective medium of literature of Bengal (including the part that is now Bangladesh)- much of t

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