Kumud Biswas

A retired IAS of West Bengal cadre, an Arts graduate, forced by the government to acquire a PG Degree in a technical subject from a UK University but not allowed to apply his technical knowledge in his work, a man of lazy habits, never wrote a single line till his friend Pradip Bhattacharya compelled him to regularly contribute to the monthly journal of the W.Bengal IAS Association, SERVICE, currently contributing to boloji.com also because of his prodding, immediately before retirement was State Editor, W.Bengal District Gazetteers, in which capacity edited about 30 books one of which is the 5-volume set called Rivers of Bengal.     

Contact: kumudrb@usa.com
  

Poems  
To Dear Lucy  

Transcreations of
Bengali Poems by Rabindranath Tagore     
A Sundarban Tiger  (Sundarboner Bagh)
Akashpradip (Akashpradip)
Astronomy (Jyotish-shastra)
Birth Story (Janmakatha) 
Dream  (Swapan)
Getting Lost (Hariye Jaoa)
Holiday (Chhuti)
ill-Repute  (Apajash)
My Kid's Kingdom (Khokar Rajya)
Pioneers (Poem # 17 from Janmadine)
Remembrance  (Mone-para)
The Artist (Chhabi-ankiye)
The Coming of Spring (Rang Lagale Bone Bone) 
The Discovery of Shoes (Juta-abiskar)
The Hero   (Birpurush) 
The Loser  (Banchita)   
The Tale of a Tiger  (Ek chhilo bagh)
The Walkway (Jatrapath)
Who is Coming? (Aj ki tahar barata pelo re)
Why So Sweet? (Keno madhur)

Stories  
Bhandare-Gurudev 
How Ganesh Got the Head of an Elephant  
The First Poet and the First Poem   
The Fun of Being Indra   
When Hanuman was a Child  

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