Binayak Bandyopadhyay’s Sambhabami (A Collection of Bengali Poems): A Postmodern Appraisal

Postmodern literature is considered as a special approach of literature keeping in mind its ideological and stylistic features. As a genre of literature it is not confined within any boundary. Rather it is suggestive of “Zero-boundary”. ‘Postmodern' is not a time zone or it does signify any particular time. But the postmodern school appeared before us with the intensity of discussion in the decade of 80s of Twentieth Century considering a radical change in sociological perspective. After Second world War the term ‘postmodern' was applied on several subjects such as literature, art, architect, sociology, philosophy, film, communication and so on. Though it is said that postmodern is not sequel of modern, yet we cannot ignore the concepts of modern while discussing postmodern. In literature the features regarded as postmodern often were applied and are being still applied in poetry. Bengali poetry does not strictly follow the features of European postmodern aspects. It contains its own stylistics devices in reflecting postmodern swing. Binayak Bandyapadhyay, a poet of the “Shunya Dashak” of Bengali poetry is very much experimental in his creative output. His anthology namely “Sambhabami”, published from Signet Press is genuinely regarded as a postmodern discourse of the “Srimad Bhagvad Gita”. In this article I intend to mark the postmodern ethos found in the said anthology of Binayak Bandyapadhyay.