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From 'Ghanada Gallery' Website
From 'Ghanada Gallery' Website
From 'Ghanada Gallery' Website
From 'Ghanada Gallery' Website
From 'Ghanada Gallery' Website
From 'Ghanada Gallery' Website

Hero

 

Cat on a sand heap. Relaxed yet alert. The trait of a true thespian.

 

Our hero is a performer with a bisected brain. Chilling out on his armchair, narrator-half blows the latest tale-bubble.

 

Alert-half however takes in the listeners’ reaction while improvising, smudging out flaws and even looking out for Banwari’s tray of goodies.

 

 

His adventurer alter ego is also deceptively cool.

Not a flicker in his facial muscles as he confronts a hunky Yankee. Even the Yeti.

 

But in two ticks the gangster lies groaning.

Alert-half has silently struck !

 

For a skilled craftsman, drawing a tall, bony, uncertain-aged hero is not a challenge.

But interpreting the in-between lines calls for an intelligent imaginative illustrator.

Armchair adventurer cum pensive puffer.

Our cool-headed hero confronts a Herculean hoodlum

Artistic Interpretation

Discovering a Schistocerca gregaria (locust) afloat the Bahr al-Arab...

Pratul Chandra's no-nonsense protagonist (Left) is tense with excitement.

Gupta's quirky self-mocking Ghanashyam (Right) remains stoically impassive.

Actor observing the Adventurer

Ghanada detachedly watches alter ego Ghanashyam's exploits.

A dramatic alienation of the two entities. From the first two books, M C Sarkar edition (1986, 1988).

 

Story-teller also leads a double life.

 

The boarding house youngsters are treated to science-scented adventures and modified myths.

 

But come evening, and their Ghanada is transformed into the respectable Ghanashyambabu. This gentleman regales an elderly audience of strollers with retellings of history. Chronicles of his ancestors’ deeds.

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From 'Ghanada Gallery' Website
First mention of Lake stories
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Juvenile fiction in Bengali is dominated by the ‘Da’-s. Tenida, Pheluda, Wrijuda, Pindida….

 

Ghanashyam Das was among the first to popularise this trend.

 

Ghanada’s zany yarns were originally decorated with a set of uber-cool drawings complementing his persona.

Sadly, only a sprinkling is gettable at present.

 

This website, a companion to our Facebook Page 'Ghanada Gallery', ventures to display the illustrious Ghanada illustrations. 

 

And more… if you’re keen !

 

 

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DISPLAYED IN THIS WEBSITE.

'GHANADA GALLERY' IS NOT A COMMERCIAL VENTURE.

Saurabh Datta

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