19 Facts About Sudhindranath Dutta

Sudhindranath Dutta was an Indian poet, essayist, journalist and critic.

Sudhindranath Dutta Dutt went to the Theosophical High School in Varanasi between 1914 and 1917, and later attended the Oriental Seminary in Kolkata.

Sudhindranath Dutta later studied law at the Law College, while simultaneously preparing for his finals for an MA in English literature from the University of Calcutta.

Sudhindranath Dutta started publishing Parichay, a literary magazine which heralded his philosophy, in 1931 and carried on with the job till 1943, when he left following ideological battle with his associates, but supplied funds nevertheless.

Sudhindranath Dutta was associated with Sabujpatra, another noted literary magazine of the era, which was edited by eminent story-writer of the era, Pramatha Chaudhury.

Sudhindranath Dutta worked as a journalist for The Statesman from 1945 to 1949.

Sudhindranath Dutta was associated with the daily The Forward, then edited by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, as the organ of All India Forward Bloc.

Sudhindranath Dutta had worked for several companies such as Light of Asia Insurance Company from 1930 to 1933, ARP from 1942 to 1945, DVC from 1949 to 1954, and Institute of Public Opinion from 1954 to 1956.

Sudhindranath Dutta was a part-time lecturer of Comparative Literature in Jadavpur University from 1956 to 1957.

Sudhindranath Dutta believed that hard work is what is needed for creating art, and the embattled nature of his poetry contrasted with that of the romantic poetry of Jibanananda Das.

Sudhindranath Dutta began as ardently in verse as in prose, but turned more and more to the sumptuousness of the latter, and for some years wrote no verse, or all but none.

Sudhindranath Dutta's recent appearance in the sphere of limericks, clerihews and doggerels is a joyful event: for he is master of light verse, and light verse is not necessarily slight.

Sudhindranath Dutta appeared on the literary scene rather late in life.

Sudhindranath Dutta, far from being obscure, is a model of lucidity, in as much as he does his best to give his verse a prose-like regularity.

Sudhindranath Dutta is ratiocinative, and delights in pursuing an argument from point to point, and from stanza to stanza, right to its logical conclusion.

Sudhindranath Dutta's aim being to charge words with maximum meaning and reduce their number, he is not to be blamed if the current Bengali vocabulary does not suffice him.

The above is aptly said, for Sudhindranath Dutta gleans freely from Tagorean harvests, not, like Bishnu Dey, archly, self-consciously or with implied sarcasm, but in a straightforward manner, never trying to conceal what is true for him and each of his contemporaries, that Rabindranath lives in him.

Sudhindranath Dutta gives us a new prose, or a new mode of prose, sombre, ponderous, of a compactness not known before, an enhancer, we might say, not only of the potency of our language, but our own capacity for abstract thinking.

Sudhindranath Dutta would have done it himself if, like Atulchandra Gupta, he had not practically abandoned writing.