Chirakumar Sabha: The Bachelor's Club: A Comedy in Five Acts

by Rabindranath Tagore

2020-11-24 19:11:43

Set in Calcutta in the early-nineteenth century, the play Chirakumar Sabha (The Bachelors'' Club), originally written by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), is neatly aimed at matrimony, and against celibacy. Calcutta was the capital of British India th... Read more
Set in Calcutta in the early-nineteenth century, the play Chirakumar Sabha (The Bachelors'' Club), originally written by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), is neatly aimed at matrimony, and against celibacy. Calcutta was the capital of British India then. Members of Chirakumar Sabha have vowed toremain unmarried throughout life. The Club is headed by Chandrababu, a professor, who lives with his niece, Nirmala and at whose house the meetings of Chirakumar Sabha are held. The coup de grace comes when the sole survivor, Purna, falls for Chandrababu''s niece.A hilarious account of a group of bachelors eventually getting married in due course, this translation from the Bengali original by Sukhendu Ray captures the spirit of the original play while retaining its readability. Less

Book Details

File size7.48 X 11.02 X 0 in
Print pages212
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date June 22, 2014
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780198099444
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (7 May 1861 – 7 Aug 1941) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill...

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