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...
Instructor
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
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...
Textual Production
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
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...
