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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,
on January 28, 2007 and again
on July 27, 2008
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
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