About the Book: Betrayed by Hope : A Play on the Life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Michael Madhusdan Dutt (1824-1872), a maverick who changed the scope of Bengali
poetry in the nineteenth century, especially with his free-verse epic,
Meghnadhbadh Kabya, was a genius who never got his due. Throughout his life,
Madhusudan was caught in an identity crisis: he wrote in the English language,
changed his religion and was a restless traveller, yearning to belong somewhere.
After an extended sojourn in London and Paris, with misery and poverty as his
constant companions, the poet finally found his metier in his mother tongue.
Betrayed By Hope, a play-script