# Akshay Chowdhury — My Reminiscences character guide

> Akshay Chowdhury in My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Akshay Babu

**First appearance:** 0020-part-iv-xix-literary-companions

## Snapshot

A schoolfellow of the fourth brother who sings tunelessly, beats time on any table, and awakens in the narrator a genuine delight in literature.

## Who they are

He is the friend who arrives in boyhood and becomes an invaluable companion in literary progress, an M.A. in English who loves Bengali authors and Vaishnava poets equally. He composes lyrics carelessly, scatters them without pride, and among strangers is a fish out of water, but among friends he is a boy with the boys, climbing onto the study table to hold forth. He matters because his enthusiastic enjoyment, rarer than erudition, teaches the narrator to appreciate rather than merely to know.

## Relationships

### [Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_reminiscences_se/characters/narrator)

_friendship_

Akshay Chowdhury is a trusted friend and frequent companion of the narrator.

### [Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_reminiscences_se/characters/narrator)

_friendship_

Akshay Chowdhury is a trusted friend and frequent companion of the narrator.

## In the story

### [XIX: Literary Companions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_reminiscences_se/chapters/part-iv-xix-literary-companions)

A schoolfellow of the narrator's fourth brother, Akshay Babu was a passionate lover of English and Bengali literature, a composer of lyrics, and a key influence on the narrator's literary appreciation.

### [Publishing](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_reminiscences_se/chapters/part-iv-xx-publishing)

Akshay Babu is mentioned as one who praised the book 'Bhubanmohini Pratibha' in the Sadharani.

### [Bhanu Singha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_reminiscences_se/chapters/part-iv-xxi-bhanu-singha)

Akshay Chowdhury told the narrator the story of the English boy-poet Chatterton, which inspired the hoax.

### [XXVII: The Broken Heart](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_reminiscences_se/chapters/part-v-xxvii-the-broken-heart)

Described as the initiator into English literature, whose passionate declamation of poetry intoxicated the narrator and his peers.

### [Valmiki Pratibha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_reminiscences_se/chapters/part-vi-xxix-valmiki-pratibha)

Recites Irish Melodies and collaborates on fitting words to tunes; his compositions are included in Valmiki Pratibha.

### [XXX: Evening Songs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_reminiscences_se/chapters/part-vi-xxx-evening-songs)

The only listener to the narrator's erratic poems; his approval widened the narrator's road to freedom.

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