The Flute Player and Manik Bandapadhyay

Manik Bandapadhyay (1908-1956) is one of the greatest novelist and story writers in the Bengali language after Rabindranath Tagore. He wrote many master pieces like dibaratrir kabyo (1935), putul nacher itikatha (1936), padma nadir majhi (1936) along with magnificent short stories like atasimami, pragaitihasik, atmohatyar adhikar, chhoto bakul purer jatri etc. He is a man of real fighter like a revolutionary. His sympathy for the unprivileged and the downtrodden is perfect. The new rising of intellection of society through personal crisis in his characters is the uniqueness of Manik Bandhyapahaya. He wrote a novel without main story with the help of sub-stories where Freud and Marx both surge. This is the unique appearance of his writing in Bengali literature most probably in the world literature too. He is the pioneer of these type rare creations in Bengali literature. He and his created characters are indifferent which is really implausible to figure out one from another.