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But it is Devdas for which he is most fondly remembered. It is not as if Chattopadhyay did not write novels about revolutionary characters ( Pather Dabi, translated as Right of Way, among others) for which he got into trouble with the British government. He had promised to see her one last time.вЂќ HeвЂ™d never see her againвЂ¦But still, he must visit Paro.

Today, when her face took pride of place beside his motherвЂ™s, his tears flowed like never before. He had spurned her all his life вЂ“ she had led a life of sin, he had thought. вЂњOne more face, pure and innocent, floated into his consciousness вЂ“ it was ChandramukhiвЂ™s. In blithe contrast to all this, Devdas seems to be soaked in decadence and depravity, alcohol and polyamory: There were substantial anti-caste movements in the West and the South too. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was rising on the horizon, and at the other end of the spectrum (comprising those who believed in violence) there were many brave revolutionaries, such as those of the Ghadar movement. The prevailing sentiment in 1917 was very much one of serious and high-minded nationalism. This is odd in literary terms, but is even odder if one looks at the historical moment. Death is inevitable, but at the final moment at least one loving touch should brush oneвЂ™s brow one caring, yearning face should bid goodbye for ever вЂ“ a man should die with a glimpse of at least one teardrop shed in his memory.Дevdas is eventually seen as an unfortunate creature, deserving of compassion. Pray that, whatever happens, he shouldnвЂ™t meet the kind of unfortunate death that Devdas did. If you ever happen to come across a hapless, unruly rogue like Devdas, please pray for his soul. Indeed, in Devdas, there seems to be a change from the traditional fidelity to a larger cause (divine or royal or national) to the erotics of a betrayal by all those Others, a betrayal that often results in the embrace of death. Compare the agency of the traditional hero вЂ“ not just the old tales of gods fighting demons, but even the sanyasi warriors of Bankim ChandraвЂ™s Anand Math. He is rarely the action hero, but, rather, one who absorbs the actions of Others (fate, lovers, family).

The appeal of Devdas is partly in its passivity, the luxury of an infinitely narcissistic self-pity. Rather, the masculinity represented is the very opposite of the conventional muscular, action-oriented hero. The hero is tragic but not in the sense of dying in battle. Devdas is a modern novelette вЂ“ it is not a dastan, or an attempt to re-write a traditional form in a modern way, in the manner of the many retellings of the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Arabian Nights, etcetera. Indeed, it was ChattopadhyayвЂ™s oeuvre (more than those of the other two figures of that hallowed trinity вЂ“ Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay) that kindled the novel in many Indian languages. Few figures have burrowed more deeply and persistently into a certain cultural psyche.Дevdas has been translated early into virtually every Indian language. It is films that have inherited this pan-regional mantle.Д«ut again, few films have been loved and reproduced by every generation, in every language, and with every new generation star-couple, as much as the tragic tale of the melancholic, love-ravaged Devdas. Nowadays, few writers can claim so wide an audience, and perhaps that nationalist historical moment is over. He was arguably the most influential pan-Indian writer we have ever had. It is exactly a hundred years since Sarat Chandra ChattopadhyayвЂ™s Devdas was published.

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