Smriticharan

🔹 Author: Dilip Kumar Roy

🔹 Genre: Autobiography - Biography - Memoir

🔹 Format: Hardcover

🔹 ISBN: 9789350400623

🔹 Pages: 636

🔹 Weight: 852 grams

📌 Book Highlights:

• A profound memoir blending personal experiences, historical insights, and spiritual reflections.
• Features intimate accounts of great personalities like:
  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Dwijendralal Roy
  • Atulprasad Sen
  • Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray
  • Sri Aurobindo
  • Girish Chandra Ghosh
  • Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Explores 19th and 20th-century Indian intellectual and cultural evolution.
• Captures the spiritual quest and philosophical depth of the author.
• Praised by Rathindranath Tagore for its sincerity and authenticity.

👤 About the Author: Dilip Kumar Roy (1897 – 1980)

✔ Son of poet-playwright Dwijendralal Roy.
✔ Brilliant academic – First-class honors in Mathematics from Presidency College (1918).
✔ Studied Mathematics & Western Music at Cambridge University (1919).
✔ Traveled to Germany & Italy for classical music training.
✔ Fluent in French, German, and Italian.
✔ Intellectual exchanges with Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Hermann Hesse, and George Duhamel.
✔ Trained in Hindustani Classical Music under:

• Abdul Karim Khan
• Faiyaz Khan
• Pt. Bhatkhande
• Hafiz Ali Khan
  ✔ Joined Sri Aurobindo’s Ashram (1928); later founded Sri Hari Krishna Mandir in Pune.
  ✔ Represented India globally (1953) – Lectured on music across Europe, USA, Japan & Egypt.
  ✔ Close friendships with Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru, and other key figures.

📚 Key Literary Works:

• Gitsagar & Sangitikī (For Calcutta University’s music curriculum)
• Vramyaman, Aghatan Ajo Ghate, Bahuballabh, Dwicharini, Tirthankar, Madhumurali, Bhikhārini, Rajkanya, Udasi Dwijendralal

📖 "Smriticharan" is an essential read for history enthusiasts, music lovers, and seekers of spiritual wisdom—offering an unparalleled glimpse into the golden age of Bengali literature, music, and thought.