Devi Chaudharani

Devi Chaudhurani is a graphic novel published by Yali Dream Creations. It is an adaptation of an age-old Bengali classic by Shamik Dasgupta. The original Devi Chaudhurani (Bengali: দেবী চৌধুরানী) is a Bengali novel written by Bankim Chandra Chatterji and published in 1884.

The cover was drawn by Sumit Kumar and colored by Renato Guerra. The inside pages are done by Bikash Satpathy and Vishwanath Manokaran.

This saga will be told in two volumes. The first volume "Matsanyaya" will be released at Kolkata Book Fair on January 29, 2014.

On an interview on Dec 1, 2013 with Shamik Dasgupta on Devi Chaudharani, he said this "Let’s take baby steps here. If Devi Chaudhurani is favored by the readers we might want to tell more stories of her and make her a long running character franchise. I am certainly open to reinterpret some other classics as well, there are so many more and it’s so hard to choose! But as I said Devi had hit me the hardest and I had made up my mind to make this book one day or the other. Thank you Yali Dream Creations, Asvin Srivatsangam for making this happen." Read more about the interview.

Plotline

1795, The age of Matsyanyaya in Colonial India, a state of lawlessness similar to the sea where the Big fish eats the small. The East India Company like a hungry great white shark devours the wealth of the nation. The smaller Native Kings and Landlords despotize the farmers and common folk for the mounting taxes imposed by the Raj. The common folk suffer relentlessly under this vicious cycle, but perhaps the ones who suffered most were the women of the country, abused by a corrupt and stringent patriarchal rule which encouraged malpractices like Polygamy, Child Marriage the loss of all social status of the widows and the heinous ritual of Sati, where a woman has to burn in the pyre of her dead husband.In this savage age of Matsyanyaya one woman rises to rule the rivers and seas of Bengal and bring salvation for the oppressed. Devi Choudhurani.

External links

Available on Amazon