Uttom Purush by Rashid Karim ll উত্তম পুরুষ: রশীদ করীম
Channel: Sahitto / সাহিত্য
Date: 2022-03-17

Through the character of Shaker of #Uttam #Purush, the Muslim mind of the then Kolkata has been exposed. The Pakistan movement, which was nourished wholeheartedly by all Muslim people for their identity, takes an upper hand in the novel. #Shaker is the embodiment of all characteristics available in the Muslim society – not even the political and cultural attitude go beyond. He supports the Muslim League and is a great #fan #of Muhammad Ali #Jinnah and eventually relinquishes a sort of detest against Mahatma Gandhi and other Hindu leaders, though he is in the belief that Pakistan would be a country irrespective of Hindus and Muslims. Possibly, for that very reason, the narrator ‘I’ of the novel speaks about himself at the outset: I am not an ideal man…. Not only for lack of power of character but the diversion of my mental attitude. The novel ends with Shaker's migration from Kolkata to Dhaka. In the novel Karim has delineated the subconscious mind of the humans more acutely than the picture of the society and the compactness of the story.