Dear Mr Latif:
Apology for wrong spelling of your first name.
I am fully with you on Sibnarayan Ray.
Two scholars are eminently suitable to write on him - Prof Amlan Dutta and Prof Sobhanlal Dutta Gupta. SNR, an ardent follower of Mn Roy, didn't spare Roy on certain points. That's the Marxian way - ' doubt everything' ( to fathom and help evolution of thought). When I first read Moumachhitantra, I was very critical, given my endocrination as a card-carrying communist. But I started thinking anew of him after reading his self-critical appraisal of Rabindranath Tagore as a painter. In 1946, he virtually refused to recognise Tagore's genius as a painter. When I read it, I was a bit annoyed as there is little doubt that Tagore's portrait ( in crayon) is unsurpassed in drawing, composition and force. Perhaps he edged out all western masters. Myself being an art critic in those days, I assumed that SNR might have an unreasonable chagrin towards Tagore who had sympathy for the Soviet Union and his last words (told to Prof P C Mahalanabis) was his firm believe that the Soviet Union would win in the war. But when I read SNR's spell-binding second piece in Desh, I thought how wrong I was in assessing such an intellectual.
Communist intellectuals praised his bold stand on secularism after the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992. That was the beginning of a friendly relation between the CPI/CPM and SNR.
Latif Saheb, kissu jai asena jodi sei sawb buddhijeebira ( janra Sibnarayan Eay-ke totapakhir moto aure, dalali-dhange communist-birodhita kore, American consulate-er suparishe USA ghurte jeto) SNR samparke na lekhe. Sibnarayan-er monisha oder kalush-sparsha theke noy durei thaklo. Tanr communism (bisheshato sarkati communism)-er samalochona chhilo pandityopurno, matadarshogata. Kintu Marx-ke tini sarbada reyat korechhen. Seitai amader pronam tanr charanjugale.
Sankar Ray
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