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শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায় stories and novels, dramas and poems, in short, every branch of literature, brot never could finish anything. I have not his work now-somehow it got lost ; but I remember poring over those incomplete mss. over and over again in my childhood, and many a night I kept awake regretting their incompleteness and thinking what might have been their conclusion it finished. Probably this led to my writing short stories when I was barely seventeen, But I soon gave up the habit as aselesa, and almost forgot in the Hong years that followed that I could even write a sentence in my * boyhood. A mere accident made me start again, after the lapse of about aighteen years. Some of my old acquaintances started a hittle magazine, but no one of note would condescend to contribute to it, as it was so smail and insignificant. When almost hopeless, some of them audienoy remembered me, and after much persuasion they succeeded in extracting from me a promise to write for it. This was in the year 1913. I promised most unwillingly—perhaps only to put them off till I had returned to Rangoon and could forget all about it. But sheer volums and force of their letters and telegrams compelled me at last to think periously writing again. I sent them a short story, for their magazine Jamtuna. This became at once extremely popular, and made me famous in one day. Since then I have been writing regularly. In Bengal perhaps I am the only fortunate writer who has not had to struggle.”—Srikanta : E. J. Thompson, 1922. "আমার শৈশব ও যৌবন ঘোর দারিদ্র্যের মঞ্চে দিয়ে অতিবাহিত হয়েছে। অর্থের অভাবেই আমার শিক্ষণলাভের সৌভাগ্য ঘটে নি । পিতার নিকট হতে অস্থির স্বভাব ও গভীর সাহিত্যাকুরাগ ব্যতীত আমি উত্তরাধিকার সূত্রে আর কিছুই পাই নি । পিতৃদত্ত প্রথম গুণটি আমাকে ঘরছাড়া করেছিল— আমি অল্প বয়সেই সারা ভারত ঘুরে এলাম। আর পিতার দ্বিতীয় গুণের ফলে জীবন ভ’রে আমি কেবল স্বপ্ন দেখেই গেলাম । আমার পিতার পাণ্ডিত্য ছিল অগাধ । ছোট গল্প, উপন্যাস, নাটক,