Traveller, have you lost your way?Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
“I bow to thee, Mother! Rich with thy swift-flowing streams, bright with thy orchard blossoms, cool with thy balmy winds, dark with the harvests of ripened fields.”
“I bow to thee, Mother! Rich with thy swift-flowing streams, bright with thy orchard blossoms, cool with thy balmy winds, dark with the harvests of ripened fields.”
— BANKIM CHANDRA CHATTERJEE
Bengali novelist · 1838 – 1894
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee pioneered the Bengali novel with works such as Durgeshnandini, Kapalkundala and Anandamath. Anandamath gave India the hymn Vande Mataram, which became a rallying song of the freedom movement. He is regarded as the father of the modern Bengali novel.
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