Leela Majumdar

Leela Majumdar was born in Calcutta on 26 February 1908 into the Ray family, which gave Bengali children's literature several of its founders: her uncle Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri had created the magazine Sandesh, her cousin was Sukumar Ray, her nephew Satyajit Ray. A child in Shillong, she graduated first in English at the University of Calcutta, taught, worked for Indian radio, co-edited Sandesh until 1994 and left some one hundred and twenty-five books. She died in Calcutta on 5 April 2007.

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• NovelThe Burmese Boxপদি পিসির বর্মি বাক্সLeela Majumdar · 1950Literature