The Poetry Society presents "Celebrating Legendary Poets: Jibanananda Das" at Conference Room - I, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:30pm on 19th June 2015

Time : 6:30 pm (Tea at 5:45 pm) Add to Calendar 19/06/2015 18:30 19/06/2015 20:00 Asia/Kolkata The Poetry Society presents "Celebrating Legendary Poets: Jibanananda Das" Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/06/the-poetry-society-presents-celebrating.html Conference Room - I, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : Conference Room - I, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : The Poetry Society (India) and India International Centre cordially invite you to the programme "Celebrating Legendary Poets: Jibanananda Das" 

Participating Poets:
Prabal Kumar Basu              
Radha Chakravarty
Sudeep Sen
Ranjit Kumar Saha
Mandira Ghosh

Chair : Shri Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee

Jibanananda Das (17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954) was a Bengali poet, writer, novelist and essayist who is recognised as “the premier poet of the post-Tagore era in India" and Bangladesh. One of his translators, Clinton B. Seely, considers Jibananda Das as "Bengal's greatest modern poet" and its "best loved poet" too. Author and literary critic Amit Chaudhuri describing Das's writing with admiration: "The poems are now part of the Bengali consciousness, on both sides of the border dividing India from what was Pakistan and is now Bangladesh; it's safe to claim that Das is the pre-eminent and best loved Bengali poet after Tagore." Das's oeuvre is eclectic and Das wrote ceaselessly. During his lifetime, seven volumes of his poems were published. After his death, it was discovered that apart from poems Das wrote several novels and a large number of short stories. His unpublished works are still being published.

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