62 Facts About Jibanananda Das

Jibanananda Das was a Bengali poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language.

Jibanananda Das had a troubling career and suffered financial hardship throughout his life.

Jibanananda Das taught at many colleges but was never granted tenure.

Jibanananda Das settled in Kolkata after the partition of India.

Jibanananda Das died on 22 October 1954, eight days after being hit by a tramcar.

Witnesses said that though the tramcar had blown its whistle, Jibanananda Das did not stop, and got struck.

Jibanananda Das was a rather unrecognised poet in his time; he wrote profusely, but as he was a recluse and introvert, he did not publish most of his writings during his lifetime.

Jibanananda Das received Rabindra-Memorial Award for Banalata Sen in 1953 at All Bengal Rabindra Literature Convention.

Jibanananda Das was born in 1899 in a Baidya family in the small district town of Barisal.

Jibanananda Das's ancestors came from the Bikrampur region of the Dhaka Division, from a now-extinct village called Gaupara in the kumarvog area of the Louhajang Upazila on the banks of the river Padma.

Jibanananda Das was an early exponent of the reformist Brahmo Samaj movement in Barisal and was highly regarded in town for his philanthropy.

Jibanananda Das erased the -gupta suffix from the family name, regarding it as a symbol of Vedic Brahmin excess, thus rendering the surname to Das.

Jibanananda's father Satyananda Das was a schoolmaster, essayist, magazine publisher, and founder-editor of Brohmobadi, a journal of the Brahmo Samaj dedicated to the exploration of social issues.

Jibanananda Das was the eldest son of his parents, and was called by the nickname Milu.

Jibanananda Das repeated the feat two years later when he passed the intermediate exams from Brajamohan College.

Jibanananda Das studied English literature and graduated with a BA degree in 1919.

Jibanananda Das joined the English department of City College, Calcutta as a tutor.

When Deshbondhu Chittaranjan Das died in June 1925, Jibanananda wrote a poem called 'Deshbandhu' Prayan'e' which was published in Bangabani magazine.

Jibanananda Das's poetry began to be widely published in various literary journals and little magazines in Calcutta, Dhaka and elsewhere.

Still in his late 20s, Jibanananda Das was the youngest member of the faculty and therefore regarded as the most dispensable.

One of the most serious literary critics of that time, Sajanikanta Jibanananda Das, began to write aggressive critiques of his poetry in the review pages of Shanibarer Chithi magazine.

Many accused Jibanananda Das of promoting indecency and incest through this poem.

Jibanananda Das wrote a number of short novels and short stories during this period of unemployment, strife and frustration.

Jibanananda Das joined as a lecturer in the English department.

Jibanananda Das's work featured in the very first issue of the magazine, a poem called Mrittu'r Aagey.

Jibanananda Das had emphasized the need for communal harmony at an early stage.

Jibanananda Das stayed at his brother Ashokananda's place through the bloody riots that swept the city.

Just before partition in August 1947, Jibanananda Das quit his job at Brajamohan College and said goodbye to his beloved Barisal.

Jibanananda Das was appointed to the editorial board of yet another new literary magazine Dondo.

Jibanananda Das applied afresh to Diamond Harbour Fakirchand College, but eventually declined it, owing to travel difficulties.

Jibanananda Das was constantly in demand at literary conferences, poetry readings, radio recitals etc.

Young Jibanananda fell in love with Shovona, daughter of his uncle Atulananda Das, who lived in the neighbourhood.

Jibanananda Das dedicated his first anthology of poems to Shovona without mentioning her name explicitly.

Jibanananda Das did not try to marry her since marriage between cousin was not socially acceptable.

Jibanananda Das has been referred to as Y in his literary notes.

Jibanananda Das was the author of "Cheleder Katha" and "Punyabati Nari".

Jibanananda Das's life came to a sudden end by way of a road accident when he was only 55.

Poet-writer Sajanikanta Jibanananda Das who had been one of his fiercest critics was tireless in his efforts to secure the best treatment for the poet.

Jibanananda Das even persuaded Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy to visit him in hospital.

Jibanananda Das died in hospital on 22 October 1954 eight days later, at about midnight.

Jibanananda Das was then 55 and left behind his wife, Labanyaprabha Das, a son and a daughter, and the ever-growing band of readers.

Jibanananda Das's body was cremated the following day at Keoratola crematorium.

The premature death after an accident of Mr Jibanananda Das removes from the field of Bengali literature a poet, who, though never in the limelight of publicity and prosperity, made a significant contribution to modern Bengali poetry by his prose-poems and free-verse.

Popularity apart, Jibanananda Das had distinguished himself as an extraordinary poet presenting a paradigm hitherto unknown.

Whilst his unfamiliar poetic diction, choice of words and thematic preferences took time to reach the hearts of readers, by the end of the 20th century the poetry of Jibanananda Das had become a defining essence of modernism in 20th-century Bengali poetry.

Jibanananda Das started writing and publishing in his early 20s.

Indeed, Jibanananda Das's poetry is sometimes an outcome of profound feeling painted in imagery of a type not readily understandable.

Jibanananda Das broke the traditional circular structure of poetry and the pattern of logical sequence of words, lines and stanzas.

Jibanananda Das conceived a poem and moulded it up in the way most natural for him.

Jibanananda Das's poetry is to be felt, rather than merely read or heard.

Jibanananda Das's style reminds us of this, seeming to come unbidden.

Jibanananda Das successfully integrated Bengali poetry with the slightly older Eurocentric international modernist movement of the early 20th century.

Jibanananda Das was at once a classicist and a romantic and created an appealing world hitherto unknown:.

Unlike many of his peers who blindly imitated the renowned western poets in a bid to create a new poetic domain and generated spurious poetry, Jibanananda Das remained anchored in his own soil and time, successfully assimilating experiences real and virtual and producing hundreds of unforgettable lines.

Thematically, Jibanananda Das is amazed by the continued existence of humankind in the backdrop of eternal flux of time, wherein individual presence is insignificant and meteoric albeit inescapable.

Jibanananda Das feels that we are closed in, fouled by the numbness of this concentration cell.

Jibanananda Das was an inward-looking person and was not in a hurry.

Jibanananda Das was known as a surrealist poet for his spontaneous, frenzied overflow of subconscious mind in poetry and especially in diction.

Jibanananda Das's translations include Banalata Sen, Meditations, Darkness, Cat and Sailor among others, many of which are now lost.

Jibanananda Das gave birth to a completely new kind of language.

Jibanananda Das takes stock of the significant directions and the purposes of his age and of their more clear and concrete embodiments in the men of his age.

Jibanananda Das arrives at his own philosophy and builds his own world, which is never a negation of the actual one, but is the same living world organized more truly and proportionately by the special reading of it by the special poet.