Paper Title: Santosh Kumar Ghosh-er chhotogolpo : Saangbaadikotaar choukaath thekey golper prosasthwa baaraandaay
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Santosh Kumar was a journalist by profession. And his passion was literary pursuits. Therefore, from the journalist's perspective, he tried to express in literature all the twists and turns he experienced in his nerves due to the socio-political-economic shocks of the contemporary fields. Therefore, he was immersed in the flow of time. His works have advanced in literature over that period. His short stories have become a reflection of the times. He is still remembered by the reading community for the quality of his writing and artistic excellence. Santosh Kumar Ghosh took up the pen in the post-World War II period. Naturally, his short stories reflect the period after the thirties. While studying at school, Santosh Kumar Ghosh read books and biographies of Ram Mohan, Vidyasagar, Madhusudan, Bankim Chandra, Hemchandra, Nabinchandra, and Saratchandra, besides textbooks. Not only that, he was fond of books by Premendra Mitra, Prabodh Kumar Sanyal, and Buddhadev Basu from the post Rabindra Nath era when he found their books in his school library. His interest in reading poetry and literature from an early age sowed the seeds in the life of a future writer - Santosh Kumar Ghosh. As a result, even though he was a journalist during his career, he did not refrain from writing literature. The addiction to literature forced him to use his pen. And from the ink of pen, one after another, timeless literary works have been written. A perfect image seen by the journalist's eyes has been oxidized in the colors of imagination and emerged in his works. In his short stories, Santosh Kumar has transformed all the real events seen by a journalist into the colors of imagination through the eyes of a skilled storyteller and presented them to the reader with the tip of his magic pen. The joys and sorrows of civilian life, emotions, feelings, pain, the complex mysteries of mind, love, and mental breakdown are beautifully portrayed. In conclusion, we can say that he brought the short stories beyond the confines of journalism and into the spacious veranda of the home. And in this he succeeded.
Keywords:Santosh Kumar Ghosh, Saangbaadik, Saahityik, Chhotogolpo.
DOI Link – https://doi.org/10.63431/AIJITR/2.III.2025.115-122
Review By – Dr. Layak Ali Khan and Dr. Sk Sabbir Hossen