Those Days (novel)
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Those Days (Bengali: সেই সময়) is a historical novel by Indian writer Sunil Gangopadhyay. It was first published as a serialized novel in the Bengali literary magazine Desh. Gangopadhyay won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel in 1985.
The story centers around the life of Nabinkumar (character based on
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
- ^ "Those Days". Penguin Books India. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
- ^ "Yugantar (Old Doordarshan TV Serial)". Free Online India. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ISBN 978-81-260-2060-7.