Adwaita Mallabarman

Adwaita Mallabarman
Native name অদ্বৈত মল্লবর্মণ
Born 1 January 1914
Brahmanbaria District, Bengal Province (present Bangladesh)
Occupation Literary editor, writer
Language Bengali Language
Ethnicity Bengali
Notable works Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (1956)

Adwaita Mallabarman (Bengali: অদ্বৈত মল্লবর্মণ) alternative spelling Advaita Mallabarmana (1 January 1914 – 16 April 1951) ) was a Bengali writer. He is mostly known for his novel Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titash) which was published in a monthly named Mohammadi five years after his death.[1]

Biography

Book cover of the English version of Titash Ekti Nadir Naam

Adwaita Mallabarman was born in a Malo family in Gokarnoghat village beside the river Titash, near Brahmanbaria town in, Comilla District of undivided Bengal. He was the second of four children and lost his parents when he was a small child. His two brothers died shortly after, and his sister (widowed soon after marriage) died before he went to Calcutta at the age of twenty. As a boy and a teenager, until he left for college, he lived in the village with his uncle. He was the first child from the Mallo community of the village and nearby area to finish school. Members of the Malo community collected subscriptions to support his school expenses (mainly books, since his school fees were either waived or covered by scholarships he received). He attended the town's elementary school and Annada High School. He matriculated from the school in 1933, and went on to Comilla Victoria College. In part because of financial difficulty, he left college in 1934 and went to Calcutta to work as a literary editor.

Throughout his teen years he wrote prodigiously, mostly poetry, and published in student magazines. Those early writings were highly acclaimed, so much so that peers who aspired to be writers sought his opinion on their work before sending it to a publisher.[2]

Mallabarman's first job in Calcutta was as assistant editor of a literary and news magazine, Navashakti. After three years with the magazine, he worked as an editorial assistant for a literary monthly, Mohammadi, in which he also published a number of his poems and parts of what was evidently the first draft of Titash Ekti Nadir Naam ( It is also filmed by Ritwik Ghatak) ; he continued to work for Mohammadi until its Muslim publisher closed the monthly and migrated. During this period he also worked for the newspaper Azad. In 1945 he joined the literary weekly Desh and the daily Ananda Bazar Patrika. From 1945 through 1950 a number of his poems, stories, essays, and translations were published in Desh and other magazines.

His growing career as a literary editor and a writer ended abruptly with his death at age thirty-seven. He was diagnosed in 1950 as suffering from tuberculosis; he had felt increasingly unwell for two years. Entrusting the just-finalized manuscript of Titash Ekti Nadir Naam to friends, he went for hospital treatment. Soon after his release he suffered a relapse and was readmitted. Before the second phase of his treatment was over, however, he walked out of the hospital. Two months later, on 16 April 1951, he died.[3][1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Ekhono boichhe Titas". Anandabazar Patrika (in Bengali). January 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  2. ↑ Shantanu Qaisar (1987). Adwaita Mallabarman. Bangladesh: Bangla Academy. pp. 12, 72.
  3. ↑ Appendix: The Author, Adwaita Mallabarman;; Bardhan Afterword; Kalpana (1993). A river called Titash (1956). Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 263, 264. ISBN 0520080505.

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