Various Subject-Matters of The Novel 'Chalachal': Novelist Ashutosh Mukhopadhyaya

Literary Ashutosh Mukhopadhyaya started getting recognition in Bengal from the forties. He drew special attention in the readership by writing the story 'Nurse Mitra' in the pages of ‘Yugantar Patrika’, but long before writing the story 'Nurse Mitra', he entered his literary life by writing a novel. It is worth noting that his literary career began in the early forties. His novel 'Chalachal' published in 1951 became very popular and it can be said that this early fifties was the beginning of his career as a novelist. It can also be considered that the first phase of his career as a novelist spanned the period from 1951 to 1958. In this episode, a novel selected from the novels written by him, 'Chalachal', has been presented in this research essay on the various topics of social psychology and the various human relationships. The relationships are like love, friendship, marriage, master-disciple Relationship etc. Analyzing these relationships reveals multiple feelings between the characters like hesitation, doubt, competition, hidden hatred and other obvious feelings. Those feelings have given birth to several social and psychological crises like Class discrimination, marital conflict, mental disorder ect. All these issues or subject-matters are analyzed in the presented research paper.