Ghanada Samagra 3
Ghanada Samagra 3 is a collection of Ghanada stories & novel. Written by Premendra Mitra in Bengali, this book is published by Ananda Publishers, Kolkata. This book was previously named as Ghanada Tosyo Tosyo Omnibus. It was released in 2014.
Overview
Premendra Mitra wrote in the preface of Ghanada Tosyo Tosyo Omnibus: Thus, in his own words, this books is about Ghanada's ancestors.Most of the Ghanada stories takes place at the mess at 72 Banamali Naskar Lane with the four young members of the mess Shibu, Shishir, Gour and Sudhir; as in Ghanada Samagra 1 & Ghanada Samagra 2, but all the tales of this book features a new set of audiences and also a new place. Here, 5 elderly gentlemen gather together on the southern side of a big, man-made lake in Kolkata and sit alongside a tree regularly in the afternoon. They are, at the first time, introduced with some adjectives indicating their physical characteristics:
- Head as white as a kash flower- HarisadhanBabu .
- Head as smooth as a stone- ShibapadaBabu : A retired teacher of history. He generally throws challenge to Ghanada.
- Belly like a barrel- RamsharanBabu .
- Body-weight like an elephant- BhabataranBabu : A retired government serviceman. Now-a-days, reads books on story, novel, religion etc. Generally he remains silent in this assembling.
- Thin like a camel and out of order- GhanashyamBabu- : Ghanada himself.
The author's style and approach loses the casual sense and gains a more polished, serious and sarcastically formal aura. As mentioned earlier, Ghanada is not the hero in these tales; rather he describes how his great ancestors changed the course of history. They are shown to influence highly important historical events at different times all over the globe. These tales contain heroines and a few love-relationships, which are generally missing in the tales he tells at the mess.
Contents
Mitra had to study a lot to write these 3 short-stories and 1 novel that are included in this book:- 1.Das Holen Ghanada - Ghanada explains how Ganado, his 22nd ancestor, became a slave, and how he was freed. Ghanada claims that Ganado was actually the inventor of tank; named Manta to deploy it in 1520. The novel starts in 1502, when Vasco da Gama came to India for the second time. Once he destroyed a business-ship, where a boy was saved luckily. Travelling Lisbon & Cuba, he was sold as a slave to a Spanish family: Juarez . This boy later grows up and he is the great Ganado.
- 2.Surya Kandle Sona - A huge novel concerning unbelievable experiences of Ganado in South America. The fall of the Inca Empire is described here.
- 3.Agra Jokhon Tolmol - A short novel of Bachanram Das at Medieval India. It contains a breathtaking account of Shivaji's remarkable escape from Agra.
- 4.Robinson Crusoe Meye Chhilen - A story of Nan Su, a princess of China, which Ghanada describes to be the authentic source of the famous Daniel Defoe novel Robinson Crusoe. But, no reference to Ghanada or his ancestors is found.