“Atmaghati Nirad Choudhuri” is a welcome answer to Nirad C. Chaudhuri's ‘Atmaghati Bangali’ and two-volume ‘Atmaghati Rabindranath’. In more than a decade since the publication of the first volume of this trilogy on the dire self-destruction of the Bengali people and their greatest poet Rabindranath Tagore, no Bengali has raised his voice against this charge - perhaps because it was framed by a Bengali who penned them in a respectable university town in England, clad in a Bengali dhoti, sitting on a Bengali mat. Radha Nag has used Nirad C. Chaudhuri's Bengali works to show that obscenities abound in them. The writer who held an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford, it seems, could not make his points without outraging the proverbial British sense of decency. Chaudhuri the author, shows Nag, had been so trapped by Chaudhuri the man that he often makes unseemly self-revelations. And it may not be improbable that he was deliberately ribald to cater to popular tastes. Nag's book is written in a delightfully ironic style and if she's sometimes hard on Chaudhuri, she has been so for the sake of truth. ...

Nirad choudhurir lekhok sottati jeno nirod. sei nirod diya tini sorboda tnahar chondromukhke achchhadito rakhite chahiachhen. Kintu chnade kolonko thakileo chnader dike takaiya keho tahar kolonker kotha chinta kore na, jyotsnai dekhe. Ei kothati mone rakhile byakti niradke chapa dibar jonyo nirodbabu hoyto eto byasto hoiten na. Nirad shobdotir arekti ortho hoilo -nai rod jahar. Orthat jini dontoheen. Othocho Nirad choudhuri sorbodai dongshon koribar chestay totpor thakiachhen ebong sejonyo gorbou onuvob koriachhen. Emonki keho jodi tahar somalochona koren tahakeu niradbabu dongshon koribar veeti prodorshon koriachhen. Hay! Dontoheen briddher ei asfalon dekhile mayai hoy. Iha opekkha tini jodi sahityer ros chusite chahiten, taha hoile jothartho buddhi ebong rosoggotar porichoy diten......

1. Chorer mayer boro gola 2. Gnye manena apni morol 3. Thakur ghore ke? Ami tau kola khaini 4. Moyurer palak dharon korlei kak moyur hoyna 5. Chena bamuner poite lagena 6. Chaluni bole chhuch tor pichhone keno chhneda 7. Pete khide mukhe laaj 8. Uposanhar 9. Utsaponji...