However, both his wife and son passed away in the plague of 1908. In 1906, he married Shanti Devi and the couple had a son. At the age of 27, Chattopadhyay went to Burma, where he was employed as a clerk in a government office in Rangoon. Baradidi, a novella, was published in 1907, now under his own name, in the local magazine Bharati. His first short story was published in 1903 in his uncle, Surendranath Ganguli’s name. Instead, he took up a job in Bihar in 1900. While in Bhagalpur, he cleared the university entrance examination.He attended college for two years, but failed to complete higher studies due to his family’s financial situation. His earliest stories, Korel and Kashinath, which he had penned as a teenager, are still widely read. His earliest stories, Korel and Kashinath, which he had penned as a teenager, are still widely read.(Illustration: Biswajit Debnath)Ĭhattopadhyay began writing at a tender age. Renowned author Saratchandra Chattopadhyay began writing from a tender age. There, he attended the Durga Charan Balak Vidyalay. His father did not have a regular job, as a result he spent most of his childhood at his mother’s family home in Bhagalpur, Bihar. Born on Septemin Devanandapur, a hamlet located in undivided Bengal during the pre-Independence era, Chattopadhyay was among the five children of Motilal Chattopadhyay and Bhubanmohini.
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