I am in huge bewilderment whether "Bengal Nights" is a semi-autobiographical novel or a fictionalized account of the romantic saga of author Mircea Eliade and Maitreyi Devi. Whatever it is, this novel will keep you intriguing on each and every page. Written originally in Romanian and in the colonial era, a love story of Romanian fellow Alain who was working in India and Maitreyi Devi, daughter of an engineer who runs the company where Alain employed. Narendra Sen is an engineer who invited Alain to stay in his own house. Guess falls in love with host daughter (Maitreyi Devi). Their surreptitious and forbidden love grows gradually. This intimacy ends abruptly and results in endless suffering. On got banished and other isolated . It's a beautiful narration of cross-cultural romance. The novel has been translated into many languages. However, it was not translated in English, to fulfill the promise made by Eliade to Maitreyi Devi that his novel will not publish in her lifetime.
In 1972, Maitreyi Devi learned about Eliade had written novel Bengal Nights at her age of fifty eight and fourth two years after the fact of their involvement. She had met Eliade during her lectures at the University of Chicago on Rabindrana Togor. She has published a novel in Bengali, Na Hanyate, It Does Not Die: A Romance in 1974. This novel won the Sahitya Aakademi Award in 1976.
Bengal Nights is cosine for readers looking forward a reading of Maitreyi Devi,s version as well as Hugh Grant and Supriya Pathaks performance. Bengal Nights is a movie in 1988 cinematic adoption of Bengal Nights. Hugh Grant played the role of Alain in 1988 cinematic adoption of Bengal Nights.
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Faith
Amol
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