Buddhadeva Bose

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...

Ketaki Kushari first appeared in print at just seven years old, when her poetry was included in a hand-produced children's magazine edited by the daughters of the well-known Bengali writer and literary editor Buddhadeva Bose .

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...

The contents of this volume span the years 1959-1968. While most consist of literary criticism, some explore social and cultural issues. The volume begins with essays on Rabindranath Tagore and Shakespeare , and a review...