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GOURIPRASAD GHOSH

GOURI PRASAD GHOSH (b. 1928) was Professor of English Maulana Azad College, Calcutta and Lecturer in English, Calcutta University. His chief critical works are The Insubstantial Pageant: A study of Shakespeare’s Life-Vision and a work on art forms in Tagore’s poetry. One of his two semi popular books on astrophysics and cosmology has won an award. He has also won an award, along with four colleagues, as the chief editor of Everyman’s Dictionary (English to Bengali). His rendering of the Shakespearean Sonnet-sequence into Bengali verse has been admired by scholars. In 2007 he had published Rabindranath Tagore:Thirty Poems and One Hundred and Thirty Songs in English.

MOHABISSEY MOHAKASHEY

GAGONENDRANATH THAKUR

(b Calcutta, 18 Sept 1867; d Calcutta, 14 Feb 1938). Painter and designer, nephew of (1) Rabindranath Tagore. Largely self-taught, he began painting in 1905, probably inspired by contacts with traditional Japanese painters in 1903; East Asian influence is visible in his early ink paintings (e.g. Jeevansmriti illustrations, 1911; Santiniketan, Nandan Mus.) and watercolours (e.g. Chaitanya series, c. 1913; Calcutta, Rabindra-Bharati Soc.). His later works show a personalized use of post-Cubist conventions (e.g. House Mysterious, c. 1922-5; Santiniketan, Nandan Mus.). He was also a versatile pioneer in lithography and design in India. He issued three portfolios of lithographed social satire between 1917 and 1921 and designed 'Oriental'-style interior decoration to replace prevalent Victorian models. He also took a keen interest in theatre, nurtured different art organizations and wrote a book in the manner of Lewis Carroll, Bhodor Bahadur ('Otter the Great'; Calcutta, 1956).