It is indeed very high praise, as high as any man can give to another’s work and coming from Saratchandra it would exalt anybody. Congratulations!Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1934 — 1935
Letter ID: 487
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
September 13, 1934
Very grateful. I meditated as usual before pranam. But after, I had a lot of correspondence etc. to attend to and am going to quote the following from a long letter of a Professor whom Saratchandra1 has asked to convey to me the following (he is very unwell, so can’t write):
Sarat Chandra has requested me to write to you his opinion about your novel “Ranger Paras”. Again and again he was telling: “It is a wonderful book from the point of view of literary language, idea and also as a novel. I urge all aspiring authors to study this book carefully and with patience. You will be benefitted and will learn a lot about many things from this book. This book is much superior than those books which are generally published now-a-days in Bengali literature and receive praises. This is no doubt a wonderful piece of literature.”
He (Sarat Chandra) has no doubt that this book will get a special place in modern Bengali literature. On the whole the book is a masterly creation.
This is no formal praise as you can see. So can’t help a little unyogic joy to hear such lavish encomium bestowed on my novel by the greatest novelist of Bengal (of India that is) and one of the greatest novelist of all ages. Your blessings!
It is indeed very high praise, as high as any man can give to another’s work and coming from Saratchandra it would exalt anybody. Congratulations!
1 Sarat Chandra Chatterji (15.9.1876-16.1.1938), the famous Bengali novelist and short story writer.