PATHER DABI || SARAT CHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAY

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay(1876 – 1938), was an illustriou Bengali novelist and short story writer of early 20th century Bengal. Many of his stories narrate the lives, tragedies, and struggles of the village people and the contemporary social practices that prevailed in Bengal. His writing matured at a time when the national movement was gaining momentum together with an awakening of social consciousness. Sensitive and daring, his novels captivated the hearts and minds of innumerable readers both in Bengal and in the rest of India. His best known novels include PalliSamaj (1916), Choritrohin (1917), Devdas (1917), Nishkriti (1917), Srikanta(1917), Datta (1918), GrihaDaha (1920), and SeshPrashna (1929). He remains the most popular, most translated, most adapted, and most plagiarized Indian author of all time.