Those Days (novel)

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Those Days
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Author Sunil Gangopadhyay
Original titleসেই সময় (Sei Samay)
TranslatorAruna Chakravorty
LanguageBengali
GenreHistorical novel
Publisher Ananda Publishers, Penguin Books
Publication placeIndia
Published in English
1997
Awards Sahitya Akademi Award
ISBN 9780140268522
OCLC 39516159
Followed by First Light  

Those Days or Sei Somoy (Bengali : সেই সময় ) is a historical novel by Indian author Sunil Gangopadhyay. Originally written in Bengali, it was first serialized in the Desh magazine. The novel depicts 19th-century Bengal through the life of Nabinkumar, based on Kaliprasanna Singha, and features key historical figures of the era. In 1985, it won the Sahitya Akademi Award.

The story centers around the life of Nabinkumar (based on Kaliprasanna Singha), along with other prominent historical figures, including Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the reformer; Michael Madhusudan Dutt, the poet; the father and son duo of Dwarkanath Tagore and Debendranath Tagore; Harish Chandra Mukherjee, the journalist; Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo Samaj radical; David Hare and John Bethune, the English educationists; Dinabandhu Mitra, the playwright; Radhanath Sikdar, the mathematician; Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, the novelist; and others. [1]

Yugantar, an Indian television series that aired on DD National in the 1980s, was based on Sei Somoy. [2] The novel was translated into Gujarati by Uma Randeria as Nava Yugnu Parodh (2002). [3]

References

  1. "Those Days". Penguin Books India. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  2. "Yugantar (Old Doordarshan TV Serial)". Free Online India. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  3. Rao, D. S. (2004). Five Decades: The National Academy of Letters, India : a Short History of Sahitya Akademi. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 48. ISBN   978-81-260-2060-7.