Art of Demystification: Manindra Gupta’s Poetry

Though Manindra Gupta’s early poetry unfolds his emotional link with the village in which he was born, he gradually learned how to speak about that relation in an indirect and cryptic way. The plough may be set deeper into the emotional life of the person than ever before, but one can’t get any easily perceivable trace of that in the late poems. Gupta does not represent the spirit of a particular region, and in that sense there is a difference between his poetry and that of Jibanananda Das though both of them came from the same village in the undivided Bengal. Nowhere in his mature...