"The soil was adequately prepared for some of the great bildungsromans of modern India: Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's four-volume Sreekanta, Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyay's Father Panchati and Aparajito..."
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The First Promise, Ashapurna Debi, 2004
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (12 September 1894 – 1 November 1950) was an Indian Bengali author and one of the leading writers of modern Bengali literature. His best known work is the autobiographical novel Pather Panchali (The Song of the Road), which was later adapted (along with Aparajito, the sequel) into The Apu Trilogy of films directed by Satyajit Ray.
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