Sunirmal Bose
Poet Sunirmal Bose is one of the handful of literary saints who devoted their lives to the service of Bengali children's literature. Sunirmal never backed down even after accepting endless hardships for a lifetime with the vow of sharing education and happiness among the children and teenagers of Bengal. Numerous poems, stories, novels, dramas and biographies written by him have become permanent assets of Bengali children's literature.
Sunirmal Bose's native place was in Dhaka. Father's name is Pashupati Bose. His grandfather Girishchandra Bose was a journalist and writer. He also gained fame by writing children's literature.
Sunirmal's maternal grandfather, the revolutionary Manoranjan Guhathakurata, was also a prolific writer and journalist. Sunirmal inherited the literary talent of these two families.
He was born on July 20, 1902 AD at Giridi, Bihar where his father worked.
The mountains, river forests of Santal Pargana strongly attracted Sunirmal's child mind. Nurtured in the pleasant natural environment here, his poetic talent flourished.
The chirping of exotic birds in the forest, the gurgling sound of the waterfall became the main inspiration for Kishore Sunirmal's poetry. His teaching of exotic rhythms began in the rhythmic and exotic sounds of nature's bosom. Later he was impressed by the effective use of different rhythms in poetry.
As a teenager, he studied painting as well as writing poetry. Later, Abanindranath also studied at the established art college.
Passed matriculation from Patna University in 1920 AD and came to Calcutta. He joined the Non-Cooperation Movement of Gandhiji, while studying at St. Paul's College. As a result, college studies remain incomplete.
He took up writing children's literature as a livelihood. At that time only literature depended especially on the neglected branch of children's literature to survive was to suffer austerity. He willingly accepted that sad life for the sake of the children and teenagers of Bengal.
Sunirmal Bose's first poem was published in Pravasi magazine. The first book of poetry published is called “Hawar Dola”. Throughout his life, he has enriched the treasure of children's literature by writing numerous juicy rhymes, poems, stories, novels, fairy tales, travelogues, comedies etc.
He also edited many children's books. He was the director of “Kishore Asia”, the only youth weekly magazine of that time. In 1363 Bangabd got “Bhubaneswari Padak” for writing children's literature. He president over the children's literature section of the “Bangasahitya conference” held in Delhi.
His books include Chhanabara, Pattarhi, Maraner Dak, Ananda Narhu, Kipte Thakurda, Chhander Tungtang and Chhandera Gopon Katha, Virashikari etc. Edited books Chhotoder Chayanika and Chhotoder Golpo Sanchayan.
A few pages of the biography are his unfinished autobiography (“Jiban khatar kayak pata”). Poet Sunirmal Bose passed away on 25th February 1957 AD.
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