Those Days (novel)

Those Days (Bengali: সেই সময়) is a historical novel by Indian writer Sunil Gangopadhyay. It was first published as a serialized novel in the Bengali literary magazine Desh. Gangopadhyay won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel in 1985.

Those Days

The cover image of Those Days
Author	Sunil Gangopadhyay
Original title	সেই সময় (Sei Samay)
Translator	Aruna Chakravorty
Language	Bengali
Genre	Historical novel
Publisher	Ananda Publishers, Penguin Books
Publication place	India
Published in English	1997
Awards	Sahitya Akademi Award
ISBN	9780140268522
OCLC	39516159
Followed by	First Light

The story centers around the life of Nabinkumar (character based on Kaliprasanna Singha), along with legendary historical figures including Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the reformer; Michael Madhusudan Dutt, the poet; the father and son duo of Dwarkanath Tagore and Debendranath Tagore; Harish Mukherjee, the journalist; Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo Samaj radical; David Hare and John Bethune, the English educationists; Dinabandhu Mitra, the playwright; Radhanath Sikdar, the mathematician; Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, the novelist; and others.^[1]

Yugantar, an Indian television series that aired on DD National in the 1980s, was based on Sei Somoy.^[2] The novel was translated into Gujarati by Uma Randeria as Nava Yugnu Parodh (2002).^[3]

References

1. "Those Days". Penguin Books India. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
2. "Yugantar (Old Doordarshan TV Serial)". Free Online India. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
3. Rao, D. S. (2004). Five Decades: The National Academy of Letters, India : a Short History of Sahitya Akademi. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 48. ISBN 978-81-260-2060-7.