Scholarly Chronicle

 Book Review; Tapas Sarkar, PhD English; Three Stories: Jibanananda Das is a collection of three translated short stories from Bengali poet, novelist, essayist, and author Jibanananda Das, by Chandak Chattarji. These three translated short stories are “Shadow play” which is translated from Das’s “Chhaya Nat”, “Tale of City and Village” from “Gram o Shohorer Golpo”, and “Bilash” from the same Bengali title “Bilash”. Jibanananda Das is mostly acquainted as a modern Bengali poet just after the name Tagore. Das’s remarkable poetry collections are Jhara Palak (1928), Dhushor Pandulipi (1936), Shreshtha Kobita (1954), and others. It was Clinton B. Seely who translated most of Das’s poems and wrote his biographical text “A Poet Apart: A Literary Biography of the Bengali Poet Jibanananda Das (1899-1954)”. With Seely’s contribution, Das is recognized as a poet worldwide. Now, many of Das’s poems are translated into English. But, as a prose writer Das’s identity is still concealed, esp...

Tapas Sarkar; Research Scholar; The word Religion derives from both Old French and Anglo Norman language which means respecting righteousness, morality, and sanctity with the reverence to the gods. Unfortunately, religion is often associated with terror and decay; among the major catalysts in manipulating world peace, the atrocities of religious conflicts are prominent. The nature of the religious atrocity or crisis is diverse in different ages and crucial in several geographical continents. In present age, religious fundamentalism or fanaticism is the modern form of religious crisis (terror); it not only kills the innocent people for the sake of religion, it dominates over other’s culture, tradition, and identity, with political purposes. History has always been the documented witness of such savage crises. Therefore, Contemporary terrorisms of religious fundamentalists are the extreme threat to world peace.  The oldest ancient civilizations, the Mesopotamian Civilization, the I...

  Essay;  Tapas Sarkar; Expression of feelings is indispensably significant to communicate meanings, senesces, and sensibilities in the society. Can we imagine a society without language or any kind of communication? No, we cannot. Communication is the basis of social construction. We can say, if there had not been the system of communication, there would not be harmony or the concept of living societal life. Through communication different ideas, experiences, struggles, and solutions are shared among different individuals; the individuals in a society with generations, among generations, and after generations prolong those values; thus, a society is established with the participations of individuals' knowledge gathered through different types of communications, verbal and non-verbal. Writing is an appropriate way of communication, the best verbal communication. In one side, it shares clear and accurate message to the receiver. On the other hand, the message of writing is more...