There're people like you who used to read Bengali literature at the young age and now, due to one reason or the other, don't go near them. But you never let any opportunity to issue sermons go. You don't read Bengali novels anymore and that is not the fault of the Bengali literature. It's your fault. I don't think there has been any decadence in Bengali literature.
Many good writers are still there.
So far painting is concerned, we have many brilliant painters. Once the standard of Bengali songs was taking a nosedive, but now that scenario has been improved. We are again listening to many good songs today. Similarly, in the case of Bengali literature, ups and downs are there. Actually, there is a bright side and a dark side of everything.