Char Yari Adda by Arun Sen [Hardcover]

Four friends. Are the four characters truly shadows of four real people? Readers of that time speculated that these four were Purnendu Patree, Debesh Roy, Ranjit Singh, and the author Arun Sen himself. The author remained silent on the matter and continued chatting with others. These chats brought up various subjects and endless debates from the wide expanse of Bengali literature—such as depression after reading Alokeranjan's "difficult prose," Rabindranath-Mussolini, Mangalacharan versus Utpal Kumar, Sarat Chandra and tears, the novels of poet Jibanananda Das or how communists viewed him, Rabindranath by Victoria Ocampo and male ego, literature in paper offices, or the chaos of book fairs. These small articles on such large topics, published as features in Pratikshan magazine, were well-loved by readers.