This book makes an attempt to erase the popular misconceptions about the identity-formation of the Bengali speaking people, their language and culture. Learn More

His early life in the intimate natural setting of Barisal and Silchar, the great Bengal famine of 1943, the violent legacy of Partition, and above all his experience of service in the armed forces went to the making of Manindra Gupta(1926-2018), one of the major architects of Bangla poetry in the post-Jibanananda era. He assimilated all that was best in his predecessors and carved out a style all his own. Dispensing with the conventional lyric mode marked by effusion, Gupta brought his intensive reading of world literature, critical thinking, and unsentimental worldview to bear on his unique style of presentation that is manifest in the deft employment of the occult and the absurd. This book offers an interpretation of Gupta's life, his texts and times.

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Apart from offering an extended chronology of postmodern literary and representational events, this revised second edition of the book deals with the history of postmodern aesthetical practices and examines certain Bangla texts in the light of postmodern cultural tendencies. Learn More