![]() But on the persuasion of his friend Pramathnath Bhatt, he allowed its publication in his journal ‘ Bharatvarsh’ (March – April 1916), and later as a book on 30 June 1917. He was against its publication as he thought his writing was immature and the character was over-sentimental. It is believed that Sarat Chandra wrote Devdas in 1901 when he was just 25. It happened to be her centenary year, and N Venkataraman wrote an excellent tribute to her. Last year, a new visitor RS Ramaswamy visited some old posts and commented about MS Subbulakshmi. ![]() ![]() When I was planning to celebrate 2014 as the centenary year of Anil Biswas, his daughter Shikha Biswas Vohra happened to visit SoY, and on my request, she wrote the inaugural article of the series on him. Such coincidences have often happened on SoY. I doubt if they realised that it was the centenary year of the publication of Sarat Chandra’s eponymous novel. Some time back, there was an interesting discussion between Ashok Kumar Tyagi and Hans about the story of Devdas and as to why Sanjay Leela Bhansali took so much liberties with it.
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