Question

what is the pseudonym of madhusudan dutta

Answer 1

Michael Madhusudan Dutt was born to Rajnarayan Dutt and Jahnabi Devi in Sagordari, Jessore District in East Bengal (now in Bangladesh). Rajnarayan Dutt was a famous lawyer. Madhusudan’s formal education started in a school in the village of Shekpura, where he studied Persian. His intellectual and literary talents and imagination were quickly recognized. His parents decided to give him an English education, so he studied European literature at home before being sent to the prestigious Hindu College in Kolkata (i.e. Calcutta) in 1833.At Hindu College, Dutt studied Bengali, Sanskrit, and Persian, among other subjects. He also began writing poetry. In 1834, he attracted a great deal of attention by reciting a poem he had composed at a public event at the college. By 1842, he was publishing poems in English and Bengali in a number of literary journals in India.Hindu College had been the site of a number of conversions to Christianity under the influence of one of its teachers, Henry Vincent Vivian Derozio, who ironically was an atheist himself. Derozio had died of cholera in 1831, two years prior to Dutt’s arrival at the school, but his spirit of free inquiry continued to be part of the school’s ethos. Among other things, this meant that Dutt was exposed to Christianity, in particular through the work of Krishna Mohan Bannerjee.In 1843, Dutt converted to Christianity at Fort William in Kolkata and took the name Michael. His conversion was part of an attempt to avoid an arranged marriage with a Hindu girl, but within months it was obvious that he was serious about it; he even contemplated becoming a missionary. It is also clear Bannerjee was a major influence on his decision. At this point in his career, Bannerjee was following the lead of missionaries like Alexander Duff and attacking Hinduism as superstitious nonsense. Dutt wrote a hymn to be recited at his baptism that echoes these ideas:Long sunk in superstition’s night, By Sin and Satan driven,I saw not, cared not for the lightThat leads the blind to Heaven.But now, at length thy grace, O Lord!Birds all around me shine;I drink thy sweet, thy precious word,I kneel before thy shrine!

Answer 2

Timothy Penpoem  was the pseudonym or pen name of Madhusudan Dutta.

Madusudan Dutta was the great Bengali poet and play-writer. He wrote under the pen name of Timothy Penpoem . He intoduced many modern and western literary styles to Bengali literature. He brought Sonnets into the Indian literature. He had a great command over various western languages and thus brought foreign cultures and literary techniques and devices to Bengali literature. His epic poem-- 'Meghnadbadh Kabya' was inspired by Milton's Paradise Lost.