A rendezvous of friends was addressing provocation to the Edtior of the Bichitra, the then renowned literature magazine, not publishing their writing. An active listener opined every editor appreciates quality writings and you couldn’t write appreciably thus your write up didn’t publish. In a position, he had to take bait that his writing will be published on Bichitra. Then, he wrote a short story on the human-creature manifesting how love and affiliation reacts on them. After a month later a person came to his home with the reward of his writing that published on Bichitra. That was the evolution of a literature legend. But that was nor a sudden triumph over a bait. Before, he really had efficient hand of writing and practiced Bankim-Taghore-Shorot and eventually faded off these predecessors illustrating social phenomenon in his novels. He didn’t overlap rather filled the unfinished way of the kollol Writers (Progressive writers).
His real name was Provodkumar Bondopadday, however he introduced himself as Manik that was his family name. Manik was born at the end of the first decade of 20th century, the moment Kollol Era in Bengali literature mainly dominated by the progressive writers. He was greatly influenced by the then writers who would analyze human psychology from social perspective. Manik’s background education was in science and whenever he wrote anything would search for any scientific reason and reality. In Bengali literature he first analyzed Freudian psycho-analytic theory illustrating real scenario. In his 48 years life he enriched Bengali literature with about 40 novels, 15 short stories; single poetry and article.
His first novel Janani (Mother), he elucidated how a mother’s usual life changes as time goes. Here, we can see how changing moment’s impacts on interactive behavior between mother and a child; child-mothers relation and psychological changes behind lively presentation of the characters. His most renowned novel is Padma Nodir Maji (Boatman of Padma) is a masterpiece of Bengali literature. The nature, its creatures and marginal people’s life in the riverside where light of the civilization yet to reach established a sphere of life by this novel. A boatman’s life in the deep river, interaction with fraud peoples explains lifestyle of the particular segment of the vast world. Individuals bit emotion folding family life and hazards, self defense and most importantly influence of somatic needs in individual’s life which neglect many others needs with foods needs were most dominant phenomenon of this novel.
Another novel Putul Nacher Itikotha (Legend of Puppet Show) is another masterpiece of Bengali literature illustrated how people, themselves, prove puppet by their collective behavior. Once, he uttered every novelist must have scientific outlook over his novel and he proved this philosophy showing a scene of a dead body died by thunder stroke that was frightened by a young boy who was a doctor reproached by superstition. Here, The boy feared to touch the dead body. In this novel he showed the lifestyles of the Bengali middle class peoples, their tiresome life-cycle, differences between emotional behavior and somatic needs bloomed in the characters, the total scenario proved the peoples are the real puppet, danced by nature, society and their needs.
In Omritosso putro, he elucidated conjugal conflicts that usually seen in the society and male’s attitude to polygamy. Ethics is unparallel whatever ones predecessors done. In the novel shortoli he explained working class peoples story of passing life of abject poverty in the voluptuous society how a woman protect herself from the sexual appetite people. In ‘aroggo’ he first showed his Marxist philosophy, here he screened life and mental expression; and tried to prove physic problem emits from social problem.
His short story’s were more analytical and constructive. Sexual behavior in peoples life, conflicts in minds, deprivation among classes, love for somatic satisfaction, god’s deprivation and discrimination was questioned in the light of social manner. Manik had only an article namely ‘Lekhoker kotha’ explained his ideology for writing, profession and stories behind taking this profession. In some of his articles he criticized the modern progressive writers and their business orientation writings.
He couldn’t complete his formal education for fascination of writings. Healing from a solvent family he lived slums or with abject people to understand life and values. However, this is only one person who took writing as profession and income generating source. With that we worked as associate Editor of ‘Bangoshri’. We believed in Marxist political philosophy and became a member communist party. After Shorot and other kolllol writers Manik Bondopadday showed much Excellency in analyzing human behavior and social context and his tools were Freudian theory, science, and reality; thus to some extent his excellent writing exceeds his kollol predecessors.
