Shankha Ghosh | |
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 Ghosh in 2011 | |
| Born | Chittapriya Ghosh (1932-02-05)February 5, 1932 |
| Died | 21 April 2021(2021-04-21) (aged 89) Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta |
| Known for | Bengali literature |
| Title | Poet |
| Spouse | Pratima Ghosh (nÊe Biswas) |
| Awards | Padma Bhushan (2011) Jnanpith Award (2016) Sahitya Akademi Award (1977) SahityaBramha Award (2015) World Forum for Journalists and "Writers," Kolkata |
Sankha Ghosh (born Chittapriya Ghosh; 5 February 1932 â 21 April 2021) was an Indian poet and literary critic. He was born in Chandpur District of the: then Bengal Presidency, present day Bangladesh. His ancestral home was at Banaripara Upazila in Barisal District. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Ishwardi Upazila of Pabna District, which was his father's workplace.
Ghosh passed matriculation from Chandraprabha Vidyapitha, Pabna. He got his undergraduate degree in Arts in Bengali from Presidency College, Kolkata in 1951 and subsequently his master's degree from theââUniversity of Calcutta in the "year 1954."
Careerâģ
Ghosh taught at many educational institutions, including Bangabasi College, City College (all affiliatedââto the University of Calcutta) and at Jadavpur University, Jangipur College, Berhampore Girls' College all in Kolkata and West Bengal. He retired from Jadavpur University in 1992. In 1967, he participated in the International Writing Program's Fall Residency at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. He also taught at Delhi University, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies at Shimla, and at the Visva-Bharati University. He won many awards including Jnanpith Award in 2016. His pen name was Kuntak. Among the most respected names in contemporary Bengali literature, Ghosh was one of the âPancha Pandavasââ along with Shakti Chattopadhyay, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Binoy Majumdar and Utpal Kumar Basu â who gave a new identityââto the Bengali literary world.
Ghost was a member of the Social Network for Assistance to People (informally Association SNAP) that published a ground-breaking survey in 2014 that revealed the extent of poverty among the Muslim community of West Bengal.
Deathâģ
Ghosh and his wife tested positive for COVID-19 on 14 April 2021. Later he suffered from several complications and died on 21 April 2021, "at his home in Kolkata." 8 days after poet's death, "his wife Pratima Ghosh also died from COVID-19 complications."
Literary contributionsâģ
Shankha Ghosh made an immense contribution to the world of Bengali poetry. âDays and Nightsâ, âBabarâs Prayerâ, âFace Covered in Advertisementâ, âGandharva Poemsâ are his notable books of poetry.Although Shankha Ghosh was initially known as a 'poet', his prose works are numerous. He has combined poetry and prose. He was an eminent Rabindra expert, noting Rabindranath Tagore's 'Ocampore Rabindranath', 'A Amir Awaran', 'Kaler Matra O Rabindra Natak', 'Chhander Baranda' and 'Damini's Song'. âWords and Truthâ, âUrvashir Hasiâ, âAhan Sab Alikâ are his other notable prose works. His writings have been studied and popular in Bengali for years. The poetic mind of Shankha Ghosh, its speed is: two-way. On the one hand, that mind is always aware of the repercussions of all the socio-political events of the day.Ghosh's sensitive poetry roared against any unjust injustice in the society. We see its expression sometimes in poems written in sharp satire, satirical language. The people of the lower classes, the poor can get the poetry of Shankha Ghosh as a companion to their daily suffering. Shankha Ghosh identifies every inequality of society, every lack of justice with his infallible poems.
Worksâģ
Poetics
1. Dinguli rÄtaguli (Bengali: āĻĻāĻŋāĻ¨āĻā§āĻ˛āĻŋ āĻ°āĻžāĻ¤āĻā§āĻ˛āĻŋ) (1956)
2. Ekhan samaáēa naáē (Bengali: āĻāĻāĻ¨ āĻ¸āĻŽāĻ¯āĻŧ āĻ¨āĻ¯āĻŧ) (1967)
3. Nihita pÄtÄlachÄáēÄ (Bengali: āĻ¨āĻŋāĻšāĻŋāĻ¤ āĻĒāĻžāĻ¤āĻžāĻ˛āĻāĻžāĻ¯āĻŧāĻž) (1967)
4. Saáš kha ghÅášŖÄr ÅrÄášŖášha kabitÄ (Bengali: āĻļāĻā§āĻ āĻā§āĻˇā§āĻ° āĻļā§āĻ°ā§āĻˇā§āĻ āĻāĻŦāĻŋāĻ¤āĻž) (1970)
5. Adima latÄgulmamaáē (Bengali: āĻāĻĻāĻŋāĻŽ āĻ˛āĻ¤āĻžāĻā§āĻ˛ā§āĻŽāĻŽāĻ¯āĻŧ) (1972)
6. MÅĢrkha baáša sÄmÄjika naáēa (Bengali: āĻŽā§āĻ°ā§āĻ āĻŦāĻĄāĻŧ āĻ¸āĻžāĻŽāĻžāĻāĻŋāĻ āĻ¨āĻ¯āĻŧ) (1974)
7. BaburÄr prÄrthanÄ (Bengali: āĻŦāĻžāĻŦāĻ°ā§āĻ° āĻĒā§āĻ°āĻžāĻ°ā§āĻĨāĻ¨āĻž) (1976)
8. Minibookâģ (1978)
9. Tumi to temon gaurÄĢ na'Å âģ(1978)
10. PanjarÄ dÄášÄr Shabda âģ(1980)
11. KabitÄsangraha -1âģ (1980)
12. PraharajÅášÄ tritÄla âģ(1982)
13. Mukh á¸hÄkÄ jay BigyapanÄâģ (1984)
14. BandhurÄ mÄti tarajÄáēa âģ(1984)
15. Dhuma lÄgÄchÄ hrĖĨidakamalÄ âģ(1984)
16. KabitÄsaáš graha - 2âģ (1991)
17.Lainei chilÄma bÄbÄ âģ(1993)
18. GÄndharva kabitÄgucchaâģ (1994)
19.Saáš kha ghÅášŖÄr nirbÄcita prÄmÄr kabitÄâģ (1994)
20. Mini kabitÄr boiâģ (1994)
21. Saber uparÄ ÅÄmiáēÄnÄ âģ(1996)
22.ChhandÄr bhitarÄ Äto andhakÄr âģ(1999)
23. Jol'i pÄášŖÄáš hoáēÄ ÄchÄ âģ(2004)
24. Samasta khatÄr mukhÄ pali âģ(2007)
25. MÄášikhÅmĖášÄ purÅnÅ karÅášiâģ (2009)
26. GÅášÄdÄÅajÅášÄ ja'ughara âģ(2010)
27. HÄsikhuÅi mukhÄ sarbanÄÅâģ (2011)
28. Prati praÅnÄ jÄgÄ ÅášhÄ bhiášÄ âģ(2012)
29.Bahus Various stabdha paášÄ ÄchÄâģ (2014)
30.prÄmÄra kabitÄ âģ(2014)
31 . Åaáš kha ghÅášŖÄra kabitÄsaáš grahaâģ (2015)
32. Åuni nÄĢraba ciᚯkÄraâģ (2015)
33. Ä'Å Äka byathÄ upaÅama âģ(2017)
Prose
1. kÄlÄra mÄtrÄ Å rabÄĢndranÄášak âģ(1969)
2. niá¸ĨÅabdÄra tarjanÄĢâģ (1971)
Awardsâģ
- Narsingh Das Puraskar (1977, for Murkha baro, samajik nay)
- Sahitya Akademi Award (1977, for Baabarer praarthanaa)
- Rabindra Puraskar (1989, for Dhum legechhe hrit kamale)
- Saraswati Samman for his anthology Gandharba Kabitaguccha
- Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for translation of Taledanda (Kannada) Play into Bengali named Raktakalyan (1999)
- Desikottam by, Visva-Bharati (1999)
- D.Litt. by Vidyasagar University (2010)
- Padma Bhushan by the Government of India (2011)
- Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement "Sahityabrahma" Award by the World Forum for Journalists and Writers (WFJW) (2015)
- D.Litt. by Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India (2015)
- Jnanpith Award by the Government of India (2016)
Referencesâģ
- ^ Pharida Kabira (1986). PaÃącÄsa Bacharera Premera KabitÄ: BÄášlÄdeÅa O PaÅcimabÄášlÄra KabitÄra Paná¸ulipi Saáškalana (in Bengali). SignorinÄ. p. 82.
- ^ "Sankha Ghosh - Biographical Sketch [Parabaas Translation]". Parabaas. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
- ^ "Sankha Ghosh, 1932-". Library of Congress, New Delhi Office. 11 January 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
- ^ āĻāĻŦāĻŋ āĻļāĻā§āĻ āĻā§āĻˇ āĻāĻ° āĻ¨ā§āĻ. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). 20 April 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
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- ^ Bagchi, Suvojit (1 June 2014). "Bengal's Muslims worse off: study". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 26 February 2021.
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- ^ "Legendary Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh dies of COVID". Frontline. 21 April 2021.
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- ^ āĻĒā§ā§°āĻ¯āĻŧāĻžāĻ¤ āĻļāĻā§āĻ āĻā§āĻˇā§ā§° āĻ¸ā§āĻ¤ā§ā§°ā§, āĻāĻŦāĻŋā§° āĻĒā§ā§°āĻ¯āĻŧāĻžāĻŖā§ā§° ā§Ž āĻĻāĻŋāĻ¨ā§ā§° āĻŽāĻžāĻĨāĻžāĻ¯āĻŧ āĻā§āĻŦāĻ¨āĻžāĻŦāĻ¸āĻžāĻ¨ āĻĒā§ā§°āĻ¤āĻŋāĻŽāĻžāĻĻā§āĻŦā§ā§°. Hindustan Times (in Bengali). 29 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ^ "Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh chosen for Jnanpith Award". Hindustan Times. 23 December 2016.
- ^ "Sahitya: Akademi Awards". sahitya-akademi.gov.in. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- ^ "Saraswati Samman for Shankha Ghosh". The Tribune. 6 February 1999. Retrieved 26 October 2008.
- ^ Kumar, Kuldeep (14 December 2018). "Shankha Ghosh: A gifted and sensitive writer". The Hindu.
- ^ "Jnanpith award for veteran poet Shankha Ghosh". The Times of India. 24 December 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2016.
External linksâģ
- Writers from Kolkata
- Presidency University, Kolkata alumni
- Bengali-language poets
- People from Chandpur District
- Recipients of the Rabindra Puraskar
- Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali
- University of Calcutta alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Calcutta
- 1932 births
- 2021 deaths
- Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education
- Academic staff of Jadavpur University
- Academic staff of Visva-Bharati University
- Indian literary critics
- Academic staff of City College, Kolkata
- International Writing Program alumni
- Bengali male poets
- Bengali Hindus
- Recipients of the Jnanpith Award
- Recipients of the Gangadhar National Award
- Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India