Asoke Bhattacharya
Asoke Bhattacharya
Asoke Bhattacharya was born in Jangipur of West Bengal, India on 26 November 1950 and was brought up in Calcutta. He first wrote poems in English in 1993 but didn't publish them until 2012. Asoke translated Jibananada Das’s celebrated book of poems called 'Banalata Sen' into English in 2011. He has also translated Sukanta Bhattacharya's 'Passport' which is expected to be published soon. Besides these, Asoke has written the following books: Existentialism: Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Sartre; A Materialist Interpretation (El Dorado, Calcutta, 1991); Education for the People: Grundtvig, Tagore, Gandhi and Freire (Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, Boston, Taipei, 2010); Paulo Freire: Rousseau of the Twentieth Century (Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, Boston, Taipei, 2011); Che Guevara: Colourful Life and Struggle (Bengali book published by Sanket, Calcutta, 2011. 4th edition). Asoke retired as Professor from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2010.
- Banalata SenINR 200
The poem consists of three stanzas each comprising six lines composed in the Bengali metrical pattern Aksherbritta or Poyar. The title of this lyric poem, 'Banalata Sen', is a female character refe...
- Che: A Colorful Life and StruggleINR 700
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