Probably this led to my writing short stories when I was barely seventeen.' over and over again in my childhood, and many a night I kept awake regretting their incompleteness and thinking what might have been their conclusion if finished. I have not his work now-somehow it got lost but I remember poring over those incomplete mss.

Father was a great scholar, and he had tried his hand at stories and novels, dramas and poems, in short, every branch of literature, but never could finish anything. The first made me a tramp and sent me out tramping the whole of India quite early, and the second made me a dreamer all my life. From my father I inherited nothing except, as I believe, his restless spirit and his keen interest in literature. I received almost no education for want of means. 'My childhood and youth were passed in great poverty. The Preface of his monumental book Srikanta quotes him: Sarat Chandra's grandfather was a very wealthy man but he lost everything. īirthplace of Sarat Chandra in Debanandapur, Hooghly His father Matilal and mother Bhuvanmohini had five children-two daughters (Anila and Sushila) and three sons (Sarat Chandra, Prabhas Chandra, and Prakash Chandra). Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay was born on 15 September 1876, in a Bengali Brahmin family in Debanandapur, a small village in Hooghly, West Bengal. He remains the most popular, translated, and adapted Indian author of all time.

Most of his works deal with the lifestyle, tragedy and struggle of the village people and the contemporary social practices that prevailed in Bengal.

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (also spelt as Sarat Chandra Chatterjee and Saratchandra Chatterji 15 September 1876 – 16 January 1938), was a Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century.

Srikanta by sarat chandra chattopadhyay