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Biplab Majumdar is a renowned and versatile Indian poet who has won numerous prizes for his work. He writes about philosophical, cultural, and social issues in a style that draws comparisons to other major poets. Majumdar seeks to address problems in society and inspire others through his poetry. He is celebrated for bringing poetic expression to issues like morality, marriage, friendship, and more.
Biplab Majumdar is a renowned and versatile Indian poet who has won numerous prizes for his work. He writes about philosophical, cultural, and social issues in a style that draws comparisons to other major poets. Majumdar seeks to address problems in society and inspire others through his poetry. He is celebrated for bringing poetic expression to issues like morality, marriage, friendship, and more.
Biplab Majumdar is a renowned and versatile Indian poet who has won numerous prizes for his work. He writes about philosophical, cultural, and social issues in a style that draws comparisons to other major poets. Majumdar seeks to address problems in society and inspire others through his poetry. He is celebrated for bringing poetic expression to issues like morality, marriage, friendship, and more.
Associate Prof of English, Rangachahi College, Majuli, Assam, India
Biplab Majumdar, the versatile genius, renowned poet and eminent editor of two literary journals, has earned his name with a number of coveted prizes across the continent. His poetic philosophy, style of versification, dedication to the poetic world and the poetic excellence deserve tremendous appreciation amidst the creative writers in India and abroad. The poetic pigments, romantic romance, cultural essence, pictorial performance, phrasal fragrance, mythical magnificence and captivating capital idea are the results of his poetic multiplicity that keep the festive days alive for the global poetic community. His poetic passion, unbridled ambition, piercing idea, shaping soul, mythical magnificence, natural iridescence and lifes strife fire the poetic potion for its fragrance of many a peeping poet across the continent.
His philosophy of life--- Human life is a long journey from ignorance to eternal light 1 exhales fragrance of life while his view on tolerance-- Tolerance leads to the land of unity 2 reminds E.M. Forsters thought of tolerance. His concept of memory-Memory provides a flow of life 3 - reminds poetic vision of the Romantic poets while his concept about mind-Success or defeat that life mirrors/ Is nothing at all but a minds affair 4 -- reminds Miltons proverbial dialogue of Paradise Lost Mind is its own place and in itself/ can make a hell of heaven, a heaven of hell. His proverbial dialogue- Golden silence is the eternal speech 5 is the reminiscent of Keats Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter. 6 His line A thing of joy is a great forever 7 reminds A thing of beauty is a joy forever 8 of Endymion. His line Love is the soul of our living 9 - is the capital idea about love whiles the line of his poem Peace reminds Stephen Gills message of peace. His concept of friendship- Friendship becomes a marriage of soul 10 - reminds Francis Bacons essay entitled Of Friendship while his concept of humor Humor is like the salt in a curry 11 reminds Augustan writers. As a philosopher poet Biplab Majumdar deals effectively with a number of subjects- life, marriage, memory, death, friendship, optimism, and various others in one poem after another. Like Dharamvir Sahani he ridicules the hollow concept of marriage that is based on false idea and the guardians take solace after their daughters are married. His thought provoking proverbial line- The marriage is over / parents are happy, anxious for ever / who knows when bad news comes 12
compels the guardians to go pros and cons of the marriage.
Majumdars poetic beauty blooms with the passage of time that becomes a deity for the poetry lovers in general and the peeping poets in particular. He wages war for the spiritual nectar in spite of the fetor of the peculiars. Majumdars poetic attire fires the literary artistry for novel vision and spiritual bliss. His poetic style, philosophy and piercing capital idea shape souls of many a ghoul. Majumdars poetic ire is appreciated tremendously all around the corner. Majumdars poetry is primarily a literary infantry for the battlefield of the creative world. His ardent passion for poetic iridescence, dedication to the literary world and essence of poetic philosophy exhale his poetic incense for Tom, Dick and Harry in general and poetry lovers in particular. Prof. Kzauyori Ikedo appreciated Virtues &Voices in these words. The reader will find that it is a superb poetry book singing of ethics and morals in human life and being extremely instructive for present day humankind. 13 Patricia Prime regards his crafted poetic technique valuable contribution to poetry while Bernard M Jackson opines Biplab is a poet at the very heart of the matter. Lucidity, clarity and simplicity are his poetic ornaments that make him popular amidst the common readers while style, philosophy and capital idea make him a literary legend of the poetic world. As a social painter Biplab Majumdar paints a nice picture of the ailing society in which majority of the masses are suffering from viper thoughts for want of celestial wisdom. Biplab Majumdar highlights the ingredients of the ailing masses with possible resolutions through several of his verses that give him worldwide reputation in the field of creative writings in English. It is interesting to know that Kolkata is primarily a literary hub from where several literary luminaries including Nobel laureate R. N. Tagore flourished with the poetic pigments at the global level. Biplab Majumdars poetic passion pierces the earthly nebulosity for the restoration of kingdom of wisdom on this strife-stricken earth. His poetic style appeals to the poetry lovers on one hand and gives recognition in the field of poetry writings on the other. His several literary awards in a number of western countries speak volumes about his poetic personality. Biplab is really a tornado for those suffering from the viper thoughts for the sake of humanity as a whole. Like P.K. Majumdar, Biplab Majumdar elicits several social issues on one hand and the poetic pigments on the other. Like Bidhan Dutta, Biplab promotes peeping poets through two literary journals in English and Bengali. Like Jayanta Mahapatra, Biplab Majumdar cages the nice picture of landscape that fills the heart with joy forever. His dedication to literary world, inordinate passion for poetry and selfless service for the peeping poets can rarely be ignored in the history of Indian English poetry. Biplabs clarity, lucidity and spontaneity become the poetic deity for the morality of a man of chastity that makes him a great literary luminary in the firmament of Indian English poetry. Like Mahashweta Chaturvedi, Biplab Majumdar tries his best to revive old cultural values of India for which India was known worldwide. However, it seems that Biplab Majumdar belongs to Ezekielean School of poetry because he raises various social problems rather than the cultural sanctity of the Indian masses. The terrorism, sexual harassment, exploitation, suffering, rape, annihilation to animals, birds and other natural objects, caste, race, religion and region, monetary blindness, and several others dominate most of his poems that put him in the domain of Ezekielean kingdom in Indian English poetry.
Like Tagore, Biplab Majumdar is primarily a bilingual Indian English poet who has been not only published but also translated into several European and Asian languages that approves his poetic maturity in Indian English poetry. Tagorean poetic passion fires Biplabs inordinate ambition for poetry and makes him a great literary luminary on this land of gentry. Several of his poems reflect the echo of Tagorean poetic essence with Biplabs poetic tavern that makes him a global celebrity without dispute. His glittering poetic passage, free expression, fearless presentation, new poetic approach, poetic vision and style of versification credits havoc for a man of ignorant amidst many a literary celebrity. The critics can inhale Tagorean essence, Daruwallas paintings of landscape and Nissim Ezekielean social paintings across his poetic works in all conscience. Biplabs fine phrases, poetic passage, free quatrains, poetic message, and capital idea are the prime poetic qualities for the poetic perfumes all over the world. There are a number of poetic features that make him out and out an Indian English poet. It is interesting to note that Dr Biplab Majumdar, a technocrat by profession but a poet by passion, has set Thames on fire so far poetry is concerned. As a sensitive poet he bursts forth over the cruelty with the paupers and other weaker sections of the society through several of his quatrains that make him a great poet of India in the prime of his youth.
Biplab Majumdar who has been awarded with honorary D.Litt, has been shaping many a peeping poet amidst the poetic nebulosity prevailing across the continent. His inordinate passion for all objects of India makes him a staunch Indian English poet. There are a number of celebrated critics in India and abroad who have reviewed his poetry books from time to time and commented positively in his poetic fervor. As a result Biplab Majumdar has become great Indian English poet from the fertile literary soil of India in general and Kolkata in particular.
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1. Majumdar, Biplab.Virtue&Vices, Kolkata:IPSK, 2001, p.9 2. Ibid.p.11 3. Ibid.p.13 4. Ibid.p.19 5. Ibid.p.27 6. Keats, John. The Works of John Keats. W.P.L:Hertfordshire, 1994. p.233 7. Majumdar, Biplab. Virtue&Vices, 2001, p.36. 8. The Works of John Keats,opp.cit.,p.57 9. Ibid.p.44 10. Ibid.p.69 11. Ibid.p.76 12. Majumdar, Biplab. Golden Horizon, Kolkata:IPSK. 2004, p.11 13. Majumdar, Biplab, Islands Dolphin Songs, Kolkata: IPSK, 2009, p.33.