Sarat Chandra Pandit: Difference between revisions

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| caption = Dadathakur sometime in the 1950s

| birth_date = 1881,{{birth date|1879|4|27 April|df=yes}}

| birth_place = SimladdiSimlandi, [[Bhadrapur, Birbhum|Bhadrapur]], [[Birbhum district]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] (now [[West Bengal]], [[India]]

| death_date = 1968,{{death 27date Apriland age|1968|4|27|1881|4|27|df=yes}}

| death_place = [[Jangipur, Murshidabad|Jangipur]], [[Murshidabad district]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]

| | genre = [[humour]], [[poetry]], [[satire]], [[social criticism]]

'''Sarat Chandra Pandit''' ([[Bengali27 language|Bengali]]:April শরতচন্দ্র1879 পন্ডিত)– (1881–196827 April 1968),<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Murshidabad|url=http://murshidabad.nic.in/history2.htm|accessdateaccess-date=8 March 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204043332/http://murshidabad.nic.in/history2.htm|archive-date=4 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Obituary: Sarat Chandra Pandit|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19680428&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|access-date=16 February 2018|newspaper=The Indian Express|date=28 April 1968|page=7}}</ref> better known as ‘Dada Thakur’ (দাদাঠাকুর), was a well-known composer of humorous rhymes, writer, publisher and social critic. He had his ancestral house at Dafarpur<ref>{{cite web|title=Dafarpur|url=http://wikimapia.org/#lat=24.463972&lon=88.0648881&z=19&l=0&m=b|accessdateaccess-date=8 March 2012}}</ref> in Jangipur Sub-division of [[West Bengal]], India. MostHowever, ofthe hisancestral lifeseat heof the residedPandits were originally at ''Dharmapur'', a village in [[JangipurRampurhat subdivision]], town[[Birbhum District]] of [[West Bengal]]. ''Sarat Chandra Pandit's'' grandfather ''Ishan Chandra Pandit'' left his ancestral village ''Dharmapur'' and settled in ''Dafarpur'' following a family conflict.''<ref>''Sera Manush Dadathakur (Bengali)'', Mitra, Nirmalranjan, Rupa & Co., Calcutta, 1951, p. 26 & 34</ref>

He''Sarat Chandra Pandit'' singlysingle-handedly published the newspaper, 'Jungipore Sangbad', from [[Jangipur, Murshidabad|Jangipur]] playing the roles of author, press-compositor, proof-reader and printer. Initially he was assisted by his wife and temporary workers in running the press, a wooden hand-press which was run in his bedroom. He also published 'Bidushak' [বিদূষক] (Jester), a pamphlet of satire, humor and social commentary and used it as his weapon for social change and to bring public awareness against corruption.

He was known for his phenomenal ability to commit things to memorymemorise, ability to compose at will rhymes and songs full of puns and wit.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rebellion in times of caution, The Telegraph, Kolkata|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101205/jsp/calcutta/story_13258453.jsp|accessdatearchive-url=https://archive.today/20120915123953/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101205/jsp/calcutta/story_13258453.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 September 2012|access-date=8 March 2012}}</ref> [[Sarat Chandra Chatterjee]] gave him the name 'Bidushak Sarat Chandra' in recognition of his very popular humorous compositions. His keen knowledge of both the Bengali, Hindi and English languages made him a unique composer of multilingual rhymes and witticisms. He created lots ofmuch Bengali [[Palindrome]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Chapar Ghanto (Bengali)|last=Ramkrishna Bhattacharya|first=|publisher=Sristisukh Prakashan|year=2015|isbn=|location=Kolkata|pages=79}}</ref> TheOne localof Britishhis administratorsfamous alsopalindromes becameinclude:<ref>{{Cite awareweb of|title=Bongodorshon him|url=https://www.bongodorshon.com/home/story_detail/palindrome-day and|access-date=2023-07-22 his|website=Bongodorshon criticism.{{!}} বাংলার যা কিছু উৎকৃষ্ট আর ভালো তাকেই সামনে আনছে}}</ref>

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