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Ishwar Gupta: The Poet Who Woke Bengal
In the stifling aftermath of the 1857 Rebellion, Bengal's cultural landscape was dominated by sycophantic verse praising British rulers. Enter Ishwar Chandra Gupta, a poet and editor who defied the trend. Through his weekly newspaper, Sambad Prabhakar, he published biting satires that lampooned colonial officials and revived the earthy, irreverent tradition of Bengali folk poetry. This episode traces Gupta's life from a small village in Bengal to the center of Calcutta's literary scene, where he mentored the young Michael Madhusudan Dutt and championed the works of forgotten…
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