An icon of life in love and languishment

We rely on tradition. A tradition in continuity leaves a deep impression in our mind. Most of us are impressed with the tradition feelings and concepts. We have encountered a very few who sets up a new tradition breaking the fencing of conventional tradition. They are called the pathfinders. Their thinking, their mode of actions in life, their attitude to life, their understanding with the meaning of life is always marked with a striking difference. Their fields of work may be different, but they act with certain exceptions. Thus they are well acknowledged as men with a difference. Not that they do other things. They do the same thing but in a different way. Their undertaking to life is beyond the conventional customary. So we remember them ages after ages, generation after generation.

ADAITYA MALLABARMAN definitely belongs to this category. He was the personality to create something new what is to be accepted as the new outlet of creative spirit. In the field of literature he is dignifiedly to be taken into account as a rare talent. He expired only at the age of 37. A man, born very poorly and wounded bitterly in the struggle of life, established his outstanding supremacy in the field of literature with versatile touch of his writing skill. He had a posthumous recognition of his literary skill. But now he is the signing billboard in the domain of education and culture.

Born in an unknown fisherman community at village GOKARNA beside the river TITAS and about three miles away from BRAHMANBERIA (now in BANGLADESH), he was not reckoned initially with any identity as such. In the eyes of the upper caste Hindus they were degraded. Demolishing the doors of degradation on the ground to dust a man came up with a complete separate identity. He is none but Adaitya Mallabarman. After the expiry of her parents at an early age he was almost an orphan. He became grown up at the mercy of his neighbours. He was all along a brilliant student. He had to give up his studies because of abject poverty when he was a student of 1^st year in the college. Higher studies are a luxury to anyone else whose constant companion is infinite poverty. Naturally Adaitya Mallabarman came to Kolkata in search of bread and butter. Then it started a new life struggle.

River Titas left a significant mark in the life of him. His overwhelming passion with river Titas built up an enthralling intimacy with the river and the livelihood on the two banks of the river. The Tales of the struggle of the fisherman community there used to haunt him every now and then. In his every writing the heartrending pain of his close associates of the community he belonged to has come in turn time and again. He could never forget the pangs and sufferings of down cast communities. That is why any of his writings, whether that is a poem, an essay, a story or a novel has never been assessed as biased, unrealistic or imaginative. Every of his writing has touched with life where struggle very much exists.

Every of his write up was strikingly different. Poverty taught him how to deal with life with all human values remaining alive. The struggle of poverty stricken people has come up again and again in his different writings. He was engaged in editing in different literature magazines including “DESH” even. He was very much skilled in any work in the field of literature and culture. He was very much inspired by the novel “THE GOOD EARTH” by PEARL S BARK. This novel underwent a significant change in his life. The way PEARL S BARK depicted the struggle of Chinese people moved him very much. He deeply realized that literature is the correct reflection social life where imaginary part is less prioritized and literature is not the deceptive image of society.

“TITAS EKTI NADIR NAME” (The name of a river is Titas), published five years after his expiry, is his milestone novel. It signifies the crystal clarity picture of the life-struggle of fisherman community in love and languishment at his own village GOKARNA. This has been done in absolute softness and emotion, but reality is also very much vivid there. In this novel he has proved his novelty by converting it as an immortal creation. This particular novel approves that the adjudication of creation can never be estimated by quantity. Quality based a single creation is enough to justify the immortality of the creation without assigning any controversy or contradiction.

He used to invest inhuman labour for his creative writings. His relentless hard labour for the sake of creation in the field of literature was eroding the spirit of his life to survive steadily. He was realizing that the lamp his life might be extinguished at any moment. He was admitted in the Kanchrapara Hospital for the treatment of Tuber Clerisies. He escaped from the hospital at the call of creation despite he was forbidden to do that. He was firm in his decision without caring anything that contradicted the philosophy of his life. He took shelter in a small dark room to complete the manuscript of his milestone novel. The manuscript writing was ever, but he departed leaving all of us for taking permanent rest in the world of eternal rest and peace.

ADAITYA MALLABARMAN is no more. But literature loving readers all over the world will remember him as an uncompromising soldier in the field of literature and culture. The glory of the resplendent reflection of his creation will never fade out; on the contrary it will glitter more and more in bright illumination.