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VICHITRA PRESS
DWARKANATH TAGORE'S STREET
CALCUTTA

1917

LITHOGRAPHED
BY
HARI OM MANDAL

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শ্রীগগনেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর

REALM OF THE ABSURD

BY

Gaganendraa Nath Tagore

চার টাকা

Rs. 4

 “INSTEAD OF FEELING COMPLIMENTED WHEN WE ARE CALLED AN ASS, WE ARE LEFT IN DOUBT.”

—MARK TWAIN.


 “TO BE FOOLISH IS HUMAN. TO LAUGH AT IT IS MORE SO.”
—RABINDRANATH TAGORE.

সূচী

LIST OF PICTURES

মলাট—অপরাধী ছায়া
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Cover—The Offending shadow
 
 
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Purification by muddy water
No.   1.
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Nuisance of a wife
No.   2.
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Purification by cowdung
No.   3.
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By the sweat of my brow
No.   4.
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Horrifying news
No.   5.
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My love of my country is as big as I am
No.   6.
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Profitable Devotion
No.   7.
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Metamorphoses
No.   8.
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Imperishable sacredness of a Brahmin
No.   9.
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Moral levitation
No. 10.
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Confusion of idea
No. 11.
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A wayside digression
No. 12.
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A rich man
No. 13.
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Millstone of caste system
No. 14.
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Terribly sympathetic
No. 15.

VIRUPA VAJRA

A PORTFOLIO OF THIRTEEN SATIRICAL PICTURES

BY

GAGANENDRANATH TAGORE

Price Re. 1(8)

To be had at—

(i) Messrs. Thacker Spink & Co. Calcutta,
(ii) Indian Publishing House, 17, Cornwallis St. Calcutta.

PRESS OPINIONS

 “BIRUPA BAJRA” is the title of a portfolio of cartoons by Gaganedranath Tagore which are really a merciless satire, not altogether undeserved, on some of the modern tendencies of the artist's countrymen. The first is called “Hybrid Bengalensis” and represents a youth clad partly in Indian and partly in European dress. The sartorial affectations of his countrymen are evidently a sore point with the artist. Whilst Patrika would dress all Europeans in dhotis Mr. Tagore has no intention of retaliating ly drawing all Bengalis in trousers. And if some of the specimens given in his caroons are typical—and we regret to say that outlandishness is not uncommon in the Indian’s adoption of European apparel—we do not blame him. “The cramming machine” is a hard knock at the University system and the Auto-speechola is a suggestion which members of Legislative Councils might take to heart.
—The Eaglishman, Friday, August, 17, 1917.
 Mr. Gaganendranath Tagore has certainly broken new grounds is Indian pictorial Art by publishing these satarical sketches. A glance at these cartoons will shew that Mr. Tagore is not a wearer of cap and bell—not an irresponsible humorist only concerned to play with our weaknesses with the sole purpose of raising a smile— nor indeed a friendly optimist content to make fun of our faults and shortcomings. He is a serious critic of the many sins of presentday Bengalee life—keenly alive to the pity of things—one whose heart is wrung with sorrow at the heartrending cruelties, the tyrannies and blind vagaries of some phases of Bengalee life. What he has felt is certainly too deep for tears and the humorous verbiage he has chosen vainly covers be shrieks of his heart. And we have no doubt that these drawings will move many, as they are intended to do, to a feeling which is the opposite of mirth.
—The Hindoo Patriot, September 22, 1917.
 বিষয়-বৈচিত্র্যে যেমন, অঙ্কন-নৈপুণ্যেও সেগুলি যে তেমনি উপভোগ্য, এ-কথা বলা বাহুল্য। দেশের, সমাজের, সাহিত্যের ও ধর্ম্মের কৃত্রিম ও বিকৃত নানান্‌ মূর্ত্তি এই-সব ছবিতে সারি সারি সাজানো। এগুলির ভিতরে কলা-কৌশলের সঙ্গে শিল্পীর সূক্ষ্মদৃষ্টি, পর্য্যবেক্ষণপটুতা, রসগ্রাহিতা ও চিন্তাশিলতাও যথেষ্টরূপে বিকাশপ্রাপ্ত। দেশের ও দশের জন্য গগনেন্দ্রনাথের বুকে যে ব্যথা বাজে, ভণ্ডের ভণ্ডামি যে তাঁহার চক্ষুশূল, এই চিত্রাবলীতে সেই পরিচয়ও তিনি ভাল-করিয়াই দিয়াছেন।
—ভারতী
  গগনেন্দ্র চিত্র-কার্টুনিষ্ট হইয়া সমাজের যে-সকল অদ্ভুত বিকৃতির হাস্যকরতা উদঘাটিত করিয়া দেখাইতেছেন, তাহাতে যে তিনি যথেষ্ট সফলতা লাভ করিয়াছেন তার প্রমাণই এই যে, তাঁর সামাজিক কর্টুনগুলো দেখিয়া লোকে বিষম চটিতেছে।
—প্রবাসী

Letter Press Printed by Haricharan Mamma at the Kantik Press— 22, Sukea Street, Calcutta,
Published by Preonath Das Gupta from the Indian Publishing House,— 22, Cornwallis Street, Calcutta.

এই লেখাটি মার্কিন যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে পাবলিক ডোমেইনে অন্তর্গত কারণ এটি ১৯২৯ খ্রিষ্টাব্দের ১লা জানুয়ারির পূর্বে প্রকাশিত।


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