Nabin Chandra Sen              

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Context:

• The nation is remembering Nabin Chandra Sen on his 175th birth anniversary today.

About:

• Nabinchandra Sen was a Bengali poet and writer, often considered one of the greatest poets prior to the arrival of Rabindranath Tagore.
• He commented on the battle of Plassey and the arrival of British Rule in India as "A night of Eternal Gloom"

Important works:

Epics

His epic trilogy was based on New Mahabharata.

1. Raivatak
2. Kurukkhetra
3. Provash

Poetry

1. Abakash Ranjani (1871)
2. Palashir Juddha (1875)

Biographies

1. Amitabha (biography of the Buddha)
2. Khrishta'ra Jibani (biography of Jesus Christ)
3. Cleopatra (biography of Cleopatra)

Poetic novel

1. Bhanumoti

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