ঘনাদার দুনিয়া

Author: Premendra Mitra
Producer: Ghanada Club

Synopsis:No, there’s no need to be surprised. There’s also no point protesting about it. Because, doing so would interrupt the course of the highly spiced chat going on between four evening walkers, who had gathered around a lake, in South Calcutta. They were all familiar with Ghanashyam’s habit of sudden commentary of such an absurd kind. Undoubtedly, one was bound to respect or agree to his boundless wisdom, which came out through his explanations of many strange topics. Although he often filled the gaps of his wisdom with his oratory skills, there’s no doubt about it as well.

Now, he was set to explain the source of Daniel Defoe’s inspiration for writing Robinson Crusoe. Thus began the vivid description of how Defoe stumbled upon the information from ancient scripts, when he had visited Madrid, for business. Eventually, Marco Polo also appeared in the narration. It followed with the description of his days spent at the Genoa prison; then came up the topic of Rusticiano da Pisa. Spell bounded with Marco Polo’s stories, Pisa had noted down everything in French. And two hundred years later, Defoe came across those same notes and created the character of Robinson Crusoe. In the original manuscript, appeared the extremely beautiful princess, Nan Sung, of the Sung dynasty. The fate of Nan Sung was told in it and how the inapt blows of time made her become Robinson Crusoe.

Needless to say, it was impossible to rebuff Ghanashyam’s neat speechifying.