I Shall Come Out Like a Tremendous Comet (A Novel on the Life and Times of Michael Madhusudhan Dutt, the First Great Poet and Dramatist of Modern India)

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Item Code: IHG072
Author: Sudipto Roy Choudhury
Publisher: Rupa Publication Pvt. Ltd.
Edition: 2009
ISBN: 9788129114570
Pages: 392
Cover: Paperback
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Dealing with the life and times of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, the first great poet and dramatist of modern India, I shall come out like a Tremendous Comet vividly recreates the social ferment and cultural efflorescence of an important period in the history of modern India. Michael was one of the great products of and closely involved in many of the events surrounding the Bengal Renaissance. The second Indian to qualify as a British Barrister-at-law and the first to marry a white woman in colonial India he led a colorful tempestuous and ultimately tragic life. Crusading against many odds, Michael became a torchbearer of the Renaissance revolutionizing Bengali literature by a series of increasingly daring literary experiments.

Michael’s interactions with the colorful Young Bengal’s and the legendary social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar become a riveting window into his world. Vignettes of life in Victorian times in Calcutta Black, Gray, and white Towns as well as Michael’s voyage to England and his sojourn in France add further flavor and verisimilitude to the novel.

About the Author

Sudipto Roy Choudhury is a Mathematical Physicist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando USA. He holds degrees form Cornell University and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He has translated various collection of short stories form Bengali and has also written periodic columns for leading Indian newspapers and magazines.

Contents

1I Do Not Care For Man-Made Churches 1
2For I Have Dreamt of Climes More Bright and Free 7
3I Have Been Almost Half-dead with all Manners of Trouble 81
4Tho’ Ours a Home of Want – I Ne’er Repine 125
5Tremendous Literary Rebel 181
6Lured by the Chimera of Hope What Fruit Have I Gained? 313
7Maya-Kanan – The Garden of Illusion 355
8Afterword 401
9Notes and Acknowledgement 405
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