Poor get poorer
As always, given the inequities built into the global economic system, the poorest people in the world have been the…
Some of the early explorers in Africa referring to Mountain of the Moon as Lunae Montes had no idea it would earn lasting literary fame as a book authored by Bibhuti Bhusan Bandopadhaya titled Chander Pahar. It was the first children&’s novel Bandopadhaya penned. First serialised in the now defunct children&’s magazine Mouchak and later published by M C Sarkar, of late the screen version of the book has met with unprecedented success. Shubham Barnamala, a children&’s magazine has brought out a special number on the book. Adorned with a treasury of information on the book and its backdrop, the African wilds, the issue claims the status of a collector&’s item owing to the presence of the poems by Nirendranath Chakraborty, Mandakranta Sen, Subodh Sarkar, Ratantanu Ghati and others. Arguably, the presence of a poem by Kamaleshwar Mukhoapadhaya, the director of the film gives a different dimension to this Beadon Street Subham publication.
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