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Betrayed by Hope : A Play on the Life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt

By Namita Gokhale| Malashri Lal

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About the book

Michael Madhusdan Dutt (1824–1872), a maverick who changed the scope of Bengali poetry in the nineteenth century, especially with his free-verse epic, ‘Meghnadhbadh Kabya’, was a genius who never got his due. Throughout his life, Madhusudan was caught in an identity crisis: he wrote in the English language, changed his religion and was a restless traveller, yearning to belong somewhere. After an extended sojourn in London and Paris, with misery and poverty as his constant companions, the poet finally found his metier in his mother tongue. Betrayed By Hope, a play-script based on the letters Michael Madhusudan Dutt wrote to friends, well-wishers and patrons, paints the portrait of an artist as he plunges headlong into crisis after crisis, even as his imagination and creativity soar. Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal pay tribute to his extraordinary life in a story that will lay bare our deep-set contradictions about art and life.

Available in: Hardback

Language: English

Namita Gokhale

Namita Gokhale is the author of twenty-one books including eleven works of fiction, and editor of numerous anthologies. Her acclaimed debut novel, Paro: Dreams of Passion, was published in 1984. Recent works of fiction include The Blind Matriarch, Jaipur Journals and Betrayed By Hope. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival. 
She has been recognized both for her writing and her commitment to multilingual Indian literature and cross-cultural literary dialogue. She was the Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters) awardee for 2021, and received the prestigious First Centenary National Award for Literature in 2017.

 
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Malashri Lal

Malashri Lal is anacademic, writer, editor and anthologist, well known for her work on women, literatureand culture. During her decades of teaching at the University of Delhi, shepioneered several initiatives in pedagogy for women’s studies and demonstratedthe vital link between academic learning and field activity. A popular speakerand book reviewer, Malashri has received several awards, the latest being theprestigious Maharani Gayatri Devi Award for Women’s Excellence, 2022.

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