Shrii P. R. Sarkar had a wonderful capacity to understand child's psychology. And that is why he was highly successful in producing juvenile literature: "In the Land of Hattamala", "More Stories of Hattamala", "The Golden Lotus of the Blue Sea" "Under the Fathomomless Depth of the Blue Sea" etc. are the few masterpieces of his wonderful juvenile literature. In taste and beauty in providing pure joy and imparting knowledge to the children the stories are unique and superb. To provide simple and innocent delight to the juvenile mind the author has rightly selected children's favourite subjects, such as the princes and princesses, the ghosts and elves, the giants and demons, cats, dogs, honeybees, chocolates, cake trees, golden lotus and a variety of dainties and delicacies. The acid test of an adroit juvenile litterateur lies in his masterly style of analyzing child psychology against an equally ideal setting. While introducing stories of ghosts, elves and witches, the author has used his pen so adroitly that not even an iota of fear is imprinted on the green leaf of the child's mind. On the contrary, the ghosts and witches are so simple, sincere and humane in behaviour that the little children feel highly inspired to make friends with them. The childhood is the proper time to plant seeds of knowledge of tree in children's minds. And the author is very cautious in this regard.
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"In economic life there is extreme inequality and exploitation. Although colonialism no longer exists openly in the political and economic sphere, still it persists indirectly, and this should not be tolerated... In this respect you should remember that in economic life, we will have to guarantee the minimum requirements of life to one and all... There cannot be any sort of adjustment as far as this point is concerned. The minimum purchasing requirement must be guaranteed to all. Today these fundamental essentialities are not being guaranteed. Rather, people are being guided by deceptive economic ideas like outdated Marxism, which has proven ineffective in practical life and has not been successfully implemented in any corner of the world. Why do people still believe in such a theory, which has never been proved successful? The time has come for people to make a proper assessment of whether they are being misguided or not." |
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"Human beings have still not been able to form a human society, and have still not learned to move with the spirit of a pilgrim. Although many small groups, motivated by self-interest, work together in particular situations, not even a small fraction of their work is done with a broader social motive. By strict definition, shall we have to declare that each small family unit is a society in itself? If going ahead in mutual adjustment only out of narrow self-interest or momentary self-seeking is called society, then in such a society, no provision can be made for the disabled, the diseased or the helpless, because in most cases nobody can benefit from them in any way... in that case there always remains the possibility of some people getting isolated from the collective. All human beings must attach themselves to others by the common bond of love and march forward hand in hand; then only will I proclaim it a society." |