Arghadipa Chakraborty

“Putulnacher Itikotha“(পুতুলনাচের ইতিকথা) is a luminary written by Manik Bandopadhyay in the field of Bengali literature.

Actually, man’s life is a theatre and at every stage of life, he becomes the butt of puppet-show. Does he know who egg on him to dance like a puppet, at all? Does he want to break the knot in spite of knowing or want to spend his life just like a puppet in the theatre of life? Manik Bandopadhyay has said the story of puppet-show, which daily occurs in man’s life, in his “Putulnacher Itikotha”.
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The background of the novel is in a village named Gaondiya but for the need of the story, the writer has sent the characters in several places. The protagonist of the novel, Sashi, is the son of Gaondiya. He went to Kolkata to become a doctor and there he witnessed the glorious side of lifestyle, which is completely different from his birth place. Though he came back Gaondiya due to the lure of his root, he was offen suffering from confusion of chosing the place where he should live. Perhaps, Kusum and Moti were the hidden reason as Sashi prefers Gaondiya for living and work. At last, Sashi loses both these women for the irony of fate. The readers comes to know that his negligence, confusion, lack of seriousness towards the relationships are the creator of his fate. Sashi decided to leave the village forever but that too was not occurred for some obvious reasons.
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At the end of the novel, the readers will think deeply for sure that we all are bound to participate in the puppet-show in the theatre of our lives. There is no escape! We are just puppets of the hands of fate.