भागा हुआ लड़का

Manoranjan Byapari

Translated by Amrita Bera

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9789395767170

Eka, 2022

Language: Hindi

341 pages

INR 399.00

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मनोरंजन ब्यापारी बंगाली दलित साहित्य का चमकता सितारा हैं। रिफ़्यूजी, मज़दूर, सफ़ाई कर्मचारी, खलासी, नक्सली, रिक्शेवाला, रसोइया, लाइब्रेरियन और अब एमएलए - अपने हर अवतार में ब्यापारी समाज के एक नए चेहरे का प्रतिनिधित्व करते आए हैं।

ब्यापारी के उपन्यासों की इस अद्भुत त्रयी के पहले भाग की शुरुआत पूर्वी पाकिस्तान से होती है। यह जीवन की कहानी है जो अपने दलित मां-बाप की गोद में मुस्लिम बहुल राष्ट्र से भाग कर पश्चिम बंगाल के रिफ़्यूजी कैंप में आता है। जन्म के समय शहद की कुछ बूंदों से वंचित, वह कैंप

में भी हमेशा गर्म भात के लिए तड़पता रहता है, जहां कई विस्थापित परिवार बेहद ख़राब हालातों में ज़िंदगी गुज़ार रहे हैं। बमुश्किल तेरह साल का जीवन कलकत्ता भाग जाता है। उसने सुना है कि शहर में पैसे हवा में उड़ते हैं। और एक बार जब वह घर छोड़ देता है तो बाहरी दुनिया से चकित इस भूखे पर दृढ़ बच्चे की यात्रा के माध्यम से हम उस नए स्वाधीन भारत को देखते हैं जो सांप्रदायिकता और हर तरह की असमानताओं से जकड़ा था। ब्यापारी की अद्वितीय

दृष्टि के ज़रिए आप एक नमःशूद्र बालक के डर, साहस और जिजीविषा से रूबरू होते हैं। यह उपन्यास एक महान प्रतिभा का जीता-जागता प्रमाण है।

Manoranjan Byapari

Manoranjan Byapari was born in the mid-fifties in Barishal, former East Pakistan. His family migrated to West Bengal in India when he was three. They were resettled in Bankura at the Shiromanipur Refugee Camp. Later, they were forced to shift to the Gholadoltala Refugee Camp, 24 Parganas, and lived there till 1969. However, Byapari had to leave home at the age of fourteen to do odd jobs. In his early twenties, he came into contact with the Naxals and with the famous labour activist Shankar Guha Niyogi, founder of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha at the Dalli Rajhara Mines, who were leading a revolution to reclaim lands of the tribals from feudal lords who had captured them by unfair means.

Byapari was sent to jail during this time, where he taught himself to read and write. Later, while working as a rickshawpuller in Kolkata, Byapari had a chance meeting with the renowned Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi, who urged him to write for her journal Bartika. He has published twelve novels and over seventy short stories since.

Some of his important works include Chhera Chhera Jibon, Ittibrite Chandal Jibon (memoir), the Chandal Jibon trilogy (novels) and Motua Ek Mukti Senar Naam. Until 2018, he was working as a cook at the Hellen Keller Institute for the Deaf and Blind in West Bengal. In 2014, Byapari was given the Suprabha Majumdar Prize, awarded by the Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi. He also received the Sharmila Ghosh Smriti Literary Prize in 2015. In 2018, the English translation of his memoir, Ittibrite Chandal Jibon (Interrogating My Chandal Life), received the Hindu Prize for nonfiction. In 2019, he was awarded the Gateway Lit Fest Writer of the Year Prize. Also, the English translation of his novel Batashe Baruder Gandha (There’s Gunpowder in the Air) was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2019, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019, the Crossword Book Award for Best Translation 2019 and the Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Prize 2020. He was appointed chairman of the newly instituted Dalit Sahitya Akademi in Bengal in 2020. Several of his books will be appearing in Bengali, English, Hindi and Malayalam in 2021.

Two of his novels will be published in the USA by the independent publisher AntiBooks Club in the spring of 2022. Byapari was recently elected a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly.