Kissa Ek Musafir (Bengali Version)

Book Details

• Publisher: Deep Prakashan

• Author: Sachindranatha Mondal

• Language: Bengali

About the Book

Kissa Ek Musafir (Bengali Version) is a fascinating narrative that presents the remarkable life journey of George Bernard Shaw—one of the most influential dramatists and thinkers of the modern era. Through a creative storytelling style, Sachindranatha Mondal portrays Shaw as a restless “traveller” of life whose ideas, struggles, and achievements shaped world literature and theatre.

The book explores how Shaw rose from humble beginnings to become a towering figure in literature, producing a vast body of work including novels, plays, essays, and critical writings. His contributions to theatre criticism, social commentary, and dramatic literature made him a leading intellectual voice of his time. Over his long life, he witnessed major historical events such as the First and Second World Wars and was actively engaged with debates surrounding politics, socialism, and cultural reform.

The narrative also highlights Shaw’s complex personality—his fearless opinions, his association with movements such as Fabian socialism, and his relationships with influential thinkers and personalities of his era. Despite receiving prestigious recognitions such as the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Academy Award, Shaw remained a man of strong principles who even declined several state honors.

Blending biography with storytelling, the book presents the life of a remarkable individual whose ideas, wit, and creative brilliance left an enduring mark on world literature and theatre.