Abanimohan Kushari

Though KKD 's father, Abanimohan Kushari , studied economics at the University of Dacca (now Dhaka) and worked as a civil servant, his true love was literature. He taught himself to speak French and German...

As a child in a middle-class Bengali family, KKD was exposed from an early age to several languages, particularly Bengali, English, Sanskrit, German, and French. She learned English at home from her mother , who...

KKD 's most recent translation (in 2005) is The Selected Poems of Buddhadeva Bose, 2003. Bose, a well-known Bengali writer and editor and founder of the prominent Bengali literary journal Kabita (in 1935), had...

In her autobiographical article, KKD reflects on her Indian upbringing and education and the ways her multilingual environment required her to become bilingual. In her social class, she writes, English language was not a...