Kumud Biswas

A retired IAS of West Bengal cadre, an Arts graduate, forced by the government to acquire a PG Degree in a technical subject from a UK University but not allowed to apply his technical knowledge in his work, a man of lazy habits, never wrote a single line till his friend Pradip Bhattacharya compelled him to regularly contribute to the monthly journal of the West Bengal IAS Association, SERVICE, currently contributing to Boloji.com also because of his prodding, immediately before retirement was State Editor, W.Bengal District Gazetteers, in which capacity edited about 30 books one of which is the 5-volume set called Rivers of Bengal. Recently he has published Rabindranath Tagore: Some poems and Songs – the English renderings of 104 poems and 86 songs of Tagore, many of them done for the first time, covering almost the entire creative life of the poet – from The Kiss of his early youth to The Path of Creation dictated by him shortly before his death. . 

Contact: kumudrb@usa.com

Selected as Poet of the Week
on December 11, 2005 and again on January 28, 2007

Cinema
Kanchanjangha : A Summer Place 

Environment  
Damned If You Do....   
Men may come and Men may go  
The Apocalypse  
The Hidden Treasure  
The Kingdom of Dobru Panna  
What a Gazetteer is Not 

History
Lord Curzon and The Partition of Bengal  

Memoirs    
A Jungle Lore  

People  
James Rennell:
   The Father of Indian Geography

Perspective
The Nature of Reality  

Society
Muslim Women 
Muslim Women – 2 
The Annalist of the Silent Millions 
The Indian Domesday Book 
The Mediocre Majority 
The Story of the Raiyat  

Stories 
Bharatbarsa 
Khajanchibabu   
Mahesh  
Master Mahashai 
The Law  

Workshop   
Julius Caesar  
The Postlude  

Poetry
A Dream 
A Dream Journey 
A Hundred Years Hence  
A Letter 
A Little Leave 
A Prayer 
A Roadside Flower 
A song came to my mind last night  
Abhisar   
All These I Loved     
Along the Way  
An Autumn Song 
An Epitaph for Appu  
An Eye for an Eye 
And in Wonder and Amazement I Sing 
Another Day 
At Last  
At the End of the Day 
At the Foot of Your Fountain  
Banga Bhawan  
Belle De Jour    
Better Don't Come  
Booksellers Since....  
Calcutta Forever 
Calcutta My Love 
Calcutta Once More 
Calibans of Calcutta 
Come My Darling 
Compensation 
Conflict 
Cruel Kindness 
Deception  
Departure of the Deity 
Diwali 
Don't Dress me Like a King 
Emancipation 
Endless Love 
Even if Not Invited 
Evening  
Falling in Love  
Freedom  
Fresh Mood of Summer  
Friend of the Poor 
Gift of the Great 
Good Morning! 
Grace 
Hamlet 
Happiness  
Have You Forgotten, My Love 
Hey Good Life  
Hindustan 
His Greatest Gift 
His Kind of Paradise 
Hyperbole 
I May Come Back 
If you want to Remember 
In the Mohua Grove  
India 
Intercession 
Jibanananda 
Just Like Your Eyes  
Kalachand of Karunamayee  
Kalimpong 
Keykayee to Dasarath  
King Lear 
Kinu Goala's Alley 
Krishna and Radha : A Dialogue
Let Me Sit By Your Side  
Letter Writing  
Like a Lily in the Pond 
Love  
Love's Consummation 
Love's Snare  
Macbeth  
Make Up 
Maulana Ziauddin 
Meager are my Possessions 
Meditation  
Mr. Prawn 
My Begging 
My Burden 
My Companions 
My Cowboy  
My Creator 
My Fame 
My Fellow Traveler
My Freedom 
My Gifts 
My God 
My Last Harvest  
My Last Words  
My Obituary  
My Playroom 
My Present 
My Question  
My Ruin  
Oh Calcutta 
Old Letters  
On His Illness 
On Your Way ...  
One by One My Days are Passing 
Our Nirvana 
Peyali 
Poem # 39 of Sheshsaptak  
Renunciation 
Requiem for a Friend  
Revelation 
Shah Jahan  
Shakespeare in Love  
Shower Your Songs  
Shyama 
Siraj-ud-Daula 
Son of Man 
Still Life 
The Big Man 
The Blessing of Dishonor  
The Boss 
The Brahmin 
The Bride and Groom  
The Century's Child 
The City of Joy 
The Concert 
The Debate 
The Due Price 
The Flying Swans 
The Golden Boat 
The Idiot 
The Journey  
The King's Justice 
The Kiss
The Last Poem 
The Last Prayer 
The Last Summer  
The Last Trip  
The Loser  
The Music of the Rains 
The Nest and the Sky 
The Night Train  
The Noon  
The Path of Creation   
The Poet's Confession 
The Poor People of Paris  
The Portrait 
The Price 
The Resigned 
The Restless One 
The School for Scandal  
The Small Men 
The Story of Ginger 
The Touchstone  
The Triangle  
The Trustee  
The Twilight Song 
The Vaishnava Songs  
The Weekend 
This Dawn 
This Dog 
To a Colleague 
To A Lady  
To Fall in Love  
To My Daughter   
True Grit  
Urvashi  
What Did She Tell Me Last Night? 
When Autumn Leaves Were Falling  
When Famine Struck the City of Sravasti 
When the Rains Came 
Where Did You Go?  
Where, O Where 
Who Goes There, Come You Here  
Who Says I am Leaving?  
Why So Sweet? 
Wonderful! 
Words and Rhymes 
You Have Begun 
Your Half-Uttered Words    
Your Sweetness 

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