{"title":"Niladri Roy","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"rhymes-of-whimsy-the-complete-abol-tabol-book-niladri-roy-9780998655734","title":"Rhymes of Whimsy - The Complete Abol Tabol","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVISED \u0026amp; ENLARGED SECOND EDITION.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo books in one: \u003c\/strong\u003e With a total of more than 250 pages, this is a book in two parts: the first comprises the translated poems and \u003cem\u003eoriginal illustrations by Sukumar Ray\u003c\/em\u003e. The second contains investigative analysis and some \u003cem\u003enever-before-published\u003c\/em\u003e commentary on the symbolism and hidden meanings woven skillfully into the poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslations: \u003c\/strong\u003e With amazingly rhyme-accurate rendering\u003cem\u003e that reads as if the poems had been penned in the English language to begin with\u003c\/em\u003e, this translation \u003cem\u003epreserves every single rollicking rhyme and the exact same cadences as in the originals\u003c\/em\u003e. Each translated poem is one hundred percent line-accurate and evokes immediate nostalgia of the original in both rhyme and rhythm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnalyses: \u003c\/strong\u003e Abol Tabol is, in fact, cleverly disguised socio-political satire, written to mock the state of society and administration of early 20th century colonial India. The book provides \u003cem\u003egroundbreaking analysis, linking the poems to specific historical events and uncovering the targeted satire hidden in many of the poems\u003c\/em\u003e. It answers questions like: Who is Knotty Woodoo (Katth Buro)? Which scandal in English parliament is the poem Sense of Essence (Gondho Bichar) about? Which Bengal-school painting is mocked in Ghostly Play (Bhooturey Khela)? Which three Indian statesmen were the The Delighted (Ahlaadi) in real life? The analysis is beautifully clear, concise and logical, and cites more than 50 separate bibliographical references .\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis second edition includes minor revisions in translations, for improved correspondence to their originals and enhanced reader-experience in English. It also introduces substantially revised and entirely newly discovered information in the analyses. 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Formatted to enable effortless at-a-glance comparison of each original line with its English translation, this edition offers twice the enjoyment, twice the fun, and is a fabulous learning tool for children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbol Tabol is a collection of fifty-three children's poems by late author Sukumar Ray, whose nonsense verse has been compared by scholars to the likes of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. For the first time in more than one hundred years since the publication of the earliest poems in 1915, comes an English translation of the complete collection. Preserving every single rollicking rhyme, and maintaining the exact same cadences as in the originals, Niladri Roy's translation is a superbly line-accurate rendering of every poem in Abol Tabol, that amazingly manages to read as if the poems had originally been penned in the English language to begin with. 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