Language Bengali Originally published 1948 Genre Poetry | Publication date 1948 Country India | |
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Similar Rupasi Bangla, Pather Panchali, Banalata Sen, Shesher Kabita, The Home and the World | ||
Chharpatra
Chharpatra (1948) is a Bengali book of poems written by Sukanta Bhattacharya. Sukanta wrote the poems of this book from 1943–1947. He died at the age of 21 and this book was published few days before his death.
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Literary features
Chharpatra created a sensation when it first appeared. Sukanta picked up particular types of labour class people as the subject of his poetry. Some of his poetries in the book Chharpatra presented some magnificent hitherto which was unknown to the Bengali poetry readers. The book starts with the poetry Chharpatra— the theme of the poetry was– "A new child is born; we will have to make room for him." "I shall make this world a fit place for him to live in."
One of his shorter poems name "Hey Mahajibon" (হে মহাজীবন) from the book Chharpatra compares the moon with a burnt roti, a prosaicness born of hunger: