Monday 9 January 2017

Ancestral House of Michael Madhusudan Dutta

' Bangladesh Special '
These Are Some More Pictures Of Interior And Exterior Of Ancestral House of Michael Madhusudan Dutta, The Famous Bengali Poet Of Undivided India Who Excelled In Both Bengali And English literature. This Old House Is Located In Village Sagardari ,Sub District Keshabpur District Jessore Bangladesh. Influences By English Poems, He Introduced Sonnet In Bengali Literature And Created Many Literary Gems. He Had Converted To Christianity And Hence Was Denied Entry To His Ancestral Homes By His Parents, So He Composed Many Of His Poems Sitting On The Banks Of Kopottaksha River Besides His House. The Picture Of River Is Aslo Included In These Pictures. This House Is A Protected Monument And Serves As Museum.
Michael Madhusudan Dutta Was Born At Sagordari On 25 January 1824 In The House Of Mr. Rajnarayan Dutt And Jahnabi Devi. Mr. Dutta Was A Popular Bengali Poet And Dramatist Of 19th-Century. He Was A Pioneer Of Modern Bengali Drama. His Famous Work "Meghnad Bodh Kavya" Is A Tragic Epic. It Is Exceptional In Bengali Literature in Terms of Style and Content. Mr. Dutta Also Wrote Poems About The Sorrows And Afflictions Of Love. He Wrote Bengali Plays In English Style. 'Buro Shaliker Ghare Ron' And 'Ekei Ki Boley Sabyota' Are His Famous Plays In Bengali Language.
He Was An Exceptionally Talented Student. Since His Childhood, Mr. Dutta Was Recognised By His Teachers And Professors As Being a Precocious Child With A Gift Of Literary Expression. He Was Very imaginative As Well. He Started Writing At The Age of 17. His English Poetry Published In England In Blackwood's Magazine And Bentley's Miscellany.
Mr. Dutta Went To England In 1862 For Becoming a Barrister-at-Law, And Enrolled At The Gray's Inn. He Was Admitted As Barrister To The High Court In Calcutta On His Return In February 1867.
Michael Madhusudan Dutta Died In Calcutta General Hospital on 29 June 1873 And Buried In
Lower Circular Road Cemetery Kolkata.
Once Michael Dutta Wrote To His Friend Bysack From France That Shows His Great Love For Mother Language:
' If There Be Any One Among Us Anxious To Leave a Name Behind Him And Not Pass Away Into Oblivion Like a Brute, Let Him Devote Himself To His Mother-Tongue. That Is His Legitimate Sphere His Proper Element.'
Pictures By Mahamudul Hasan Zillu Ji



















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