Then there is Rabindranath himself strongly aligning himself with the anti partition of Bengal movement, almost parallel to the time of Shankar. Even Bankim had political characters,albeit not in the modern era (more the mughal/pathan vs hindu kings politics). You site the example of Animesh from Uttoradhikar, Kalbela, kalpurush, but Sabyasachi from "Pather Dabi" is an even earlier example of a violently political character. Shankar is merely one of such early Colossus, who stood in our minds as heroes of our novels, the way they should behave, the way they should think, the way their minds will act and react !! Bengal needed more "Animesh"-es for sure.Īs I said, by own interpretation is much more mundane.Ĭoming to your post, your premise that Bangla literature is apolitical is not entirely correct. Maybe, it has to do with our culture, our psyche, not to integrate the turmoil with celebrated forms of art. Until Salil Chaudhari celebrated the "gono-shongeet" format, artists from Bengal never took the initiative to align themselves to the contemporary political unrest.Of course, there are minor exceptions,but, those exceptions were never celebrated in the mainstream. The matinee idols Uttam Kumar and Soumitra Chatterjee hardly enacted any political characters or anything near with similar tones or overtones. Even though, artists from Bengal fondly remembers the bygone political era and unrest and attach an added romanticism with it, for e.g., Sunil Gangopadhay's "Shei Shomoi". In the post-war, post-Independence era, there were hardly any prominent and celebratory novels or works of art pertaining to the Naxal unrest, with Animesh Trilogy from Samaresh Basu being an exception.
Methinks,characters from Bengali literature and art are vastly apolitical, since their inception.
Certainly calls for wider, wilder and a longer debate.
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