Rajshekhar Basu

Rajshekhar Basu was born on 16 March 1880 in Bamunpara, in Bardhaman. A chemist by training, he joined the Bengal Chemical and Pharmaceutical Works in 1903 and became its director. He signed his satirical tales Parashuram, a name borrowed from the family's goldsmith, and they made him the first humorist of his language in the twentieth century. In 1935 he chaired the University of Calcutta commission on Bengali spelling, in 1937 he published a dictionary still in use, and he translated the Ramayana and the Mahabharata into prose. He received the Padma Bhushan in 1956 and died in Calcutta on 27 April 1960.

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• Short storiesগড্ডলিকাRajshekhar Basu · 1924not translated into EnglishLiterature