Indian poet (1932–2021)
Sankha Ghosh (born Chittapriya Ghosh ; 5 February 1932 – 21 April 2021)[ 1] [ 2] was an Indian poet and literary critic.[ 3] 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.[ 4]
Ghosh passed matriculation from Chandraprabha Vidyapitha, Pabna .[ 4] He got his undergraduate degree in Arts in Bengali from Presidency College, Kolkata in 1951 and subsequently his master's degree from the University of Calcutta in the year 1954.
Career
Ghosh taught at many educational institutions, including Bangabasi College , City College (all affiliated to 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 .[ 5] Among the most respected names in contemporary Bengali literature, Ghosh was one of the ‘Pancha Pandavas ’— along with Shakti Chattopadhyay , Sunil Gangopadhyay , Binoy Majumdar and Utpal Kumar Basu — who gave a new identity to the Bengali literary world.
Ghosh 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 .[ 6]
Death
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.[ 7] [ 8] [ 9] 8 days after poet's death, his wife Pratima Ghosh also died from COVID-19 complications.[ 10]
Literary contributions
Shankha Ghosh made contribution to the world of Bengali poetry. ‘Days and Nights’, ‘Babar’s Prayer’, ‘Face Covered in Advertisement’, ‘Gandharva Poems’ 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.[citation needed ] 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'. ‘Words and Truth’, ‘Urvashir Hasi’, ‘Ahan Sab Alik’ 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. The people of the lower classes, the poor can get the poetry of Shankha Ghosh as a companion to their daily suffering. Shankha Ghosh work identifies inequality of society, lack of justice with his infallible poems.[citation needed ]
Works
Poetics
1. Dinguli rātaguli (Bengali : দিনগুলি রাতগুলি ) (1956)
2. Ekhan samaẏa naẏ (Bengali : এখন সময় নয় ) (1967)
3. Nihita pātālachāẏā (Bengali : নিহিত পাতালছায়া ) (1967)
4. Saṅkha ghōṣēr śrēṣṭha kabitā (Bengali : শঙ্খ ঘোষের শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতা ) (1970)
5. Adima latāgulmamaẏ (Bengali : আদিম লতাগুল্মময় ) (1972)
6. Mūrkha baṛa sāmājika naẏa (Bengali : মূর্খ বড় সামাজিক নয় ) (1974)
7. Baburēr prārthanā (Bengali : বাবরের প্রার্থনা ) (1976)
8. Minibook[ মিনিবুক] (1978)
9. Tumi to temon gaurī na'ō [তুমি তেমন গৌরী নও ](1978)
10. Panjarē dāṛēr Shabda [পাঁজরে দাঁড়ের শব্দ ](1980)
11. Kabitāsangraha -1[ কবিতাসংগ্রহ -১ ] (1980)
12. Praharajōṛā tritāla [ প্রহরজোড়া ত্রিতাল](1982)
13. Mukh ḍhēkē jay Bigyapanē[মুখ ঢেকে যায় বিজ্ঞাপনে ] (1984)
14. Bandhurā māti tarajāẏa [বন্ধুরা মাতি তরজায় ](1984)
15. Dhuma lēgēchē hr̥idakamalē [ধুম লেগেছে হৃদকমলে ](1984)
16. Kabitāsaṅgraha - 2[ কবিতাসংগ্রহ - ২ ] (1991)
17.Lainei chilāma bābā [ লাইনেই ছিলাম বাবা](1993)
18. Gāndharva kabitāguccha[ গান্ধর্ব কবিতাগুচ্ছ ] (1994)
19.Saṅkha ghōṣēr nirbācita prēmēr kabitā[ শঙ্খ ঘোষের নির্বাচিত প্রেমের কবিতা] (1994)
20. Mini kabitār boi[মিনি কবিতার বই ] (1994)
21. Saber uparē śāmiẏānā [ শবের উপরে শামিয়ানা](1996)
22.Chhandēr bhitarē ēto andhakār [ ছন্দের ভিতরে এত অন্ধকার](1999)
23. Jol'i pāṣāṇ hoẏē āchē [ জলই পাষাণ হয়ে আছে ](2004)
24. Samasta khatēr mukhē pali [ সমস্ত ক্ষতের মুখে পলি ](2007)
25. Māṭikhōm̐ṛā purōnō karōṭi[ মাটিখোঁড়া পুরোনো করোটি] (2009)
26. Gōṭādēśajōṛā ja'ughara [ গোটাদেশজোড়া জউঘর ](2010)
27. Hāsikhuśi mukhē sarbanāś[ হাসিখুশি মুখে সর্বনাশ] (2011)
28. Prati praśnē jēgē ōṭhē bhiṭē [ প্রতি প্রশ্নে জেগে ওঠে ভিটে](2012)
29.Bahus Various stabdha paṛē āchē[বহুস্বর স্তব্ধ পড়ে আছে ] (2014)
30.prēmēra kabitā [প্রেমের কবিতা ](2014)
31 . śaṅkha ghōṣēra kabitāsaṅgraha[শঙ্খ ঘোষের কবিতাসংগ্রহ ] (2015)
32. śuni nīraba ciṯkāra[ শুনি নীরব চিৎকার ] (2015)
33. ē'ō ēka byathā upaśama [এও এক ব্যথা উপশম ](2017)
Prose
1. kālēra mātrā ō rabīndranāṭak [ কালের মাত্রা ও রবীন্দ্রনাটকএ](1969)
2. niḥśabdēra tarjanī[ নিঃশব্দের তর্জনী ] (1971)
Awards
References
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1965–1985 1986–2000 2001–present
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
1968–1980
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1968)
D. R. Bendre , Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay , Sumitranandan Pant , C. Rajagopalachari (1969)
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer , Firaq Gorakhpuri , Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar , Viswanatha Satyanarayana (1970)
Kaka Kalelkar , Gopinath Kaviraj , Gurbaksh Singh , Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1971)
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar , Mangharam Udharam Malkani , Nilmoni Phukan , Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi , Sukumar Sen , V. R. Trivedi (1973)
T. P. Meenakshisundaram (1975)
Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande , Jainendra Kumar , Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu' , V. Raghavan , Mahadevi Varma (1979)
1981–2000
Umashankar Joshi , K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar , K. Shivaram Karanth (1985)
Mulk Raj Anand , Vinayaka Krishna Gokak , Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi , Amritlal Nagar , Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai , Annada Shankar Ray (1989)
Nagarjun , Balamani Amma , Ashapurna Devi , Qurratulain Hyder , Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte , Kanhu Charan Mohanty , P. T. Narasimhachar , R. K. Narayan , Harbhajan Singh (1994)
Jayakanthan , Vinda Karandikar , Vidya Niwas Mishra , Subhash Mukhopadhyay , Raja Rao , Sachidananda Routray , Krishna Sobti (1996)
Syed Abdul Malik , K. S. Narasimhaswamy , Gunturu Seshendra Sarma , Rajendra Shah , Ram Vilas Sharma , N. Khelchandra Singh (1999)
Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar , Rehman Rahi (2000)
2001–present
Ram Nath Shastri (2001)
Kaifi Azmi , Govind Chandra Pande , Nilamani Phookan , Bhisham Sahni (2002)
Kovilan , U. R. Ananthamurthy , Vijaydan Detha , Bhadriraju Krishnamurti , Amrita Pritam , Shankha Ghosh , Nirmal Verma (2004)
Manoj Das , Vishnu Prabhakar (2006)
Anita Desai , Kartar Singh Duggal , Ravindra Kelekar (2007)
Gopi Chand Narang , Ramakanta Rath (2009)
Chandranath Mishra Amar , Kunwar Narayan , Bholabhai Patel , Kedarnath Singh , Khushwant Singh (2010)
Raghuveer Chaudhari , Arjan Hasid , Sitakant Mahapatra , M. T. Vasudevan Nair , Asit Rai , Satya Vrat Shastri (2013)
Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa , C. Narayana Reddy (2014)
Nirendranath Chakravarty , Gurdial Singh (2016)
Honorary Fellows Premchand Fellowship Ananda Coomaraswamy Fellowship
1990-1999 2000-2009 2010-2019 2020-2029
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