Saratchandra Chatterjee

Saratchandra Chatterjee also known as Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay was a Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century Most of his works deal with the lifestyle tragedy and struggle of the village people and the contemporary sociocultural practices that prevailed in Bengal He remains the most popular translated and adapted Indian author of all time His works have been adapted in around fifty films in different South Asian languages Particularly his novel Devdas 1917 has been adapted in sixteen different cinematic versions in languages including Bengali Hindi and Telugu His novel Parineeta 1914 has also been adapted thrice as Hindi language films Description above is from the Wikipedia article Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia