In Pagla Dashu’s case, despite Sukumar Ray being an accomplished illustrator having drawn numerous drawings accompanying his nonsense verse and stories, there is none of Pagla Dashu in his hand. The ...

The Crazy Tales of Pagla Dashu and Co.; Hachette India; 194 pages, ₹ 295 The Crazy Tales of Pagla Dashu and Co. | Sukumar Ray Everyone who has a literate Bengali friend has probably been invited to ...

Siliguri, Aug. 5: Besides chasing Jerry around, Tom will now have to look out for his counterpart from Ha Ja Ba Ra La. Srijan Sena, a local socio-cultural organisation, has the stage ready for the ...

Sukumar Ray’s crazy creations, Abol Tabol and Ho Jo Bo Ro Lo, and many others, have an eternal fan following among children and adults alike. So, naturally the legend’s 132 nd birth anniversary on ...

People my age are one of the last few generations that grew up in Dhaka without twenty-four hour television or the Internet. We would read. A lot. One of our favourite authors growing up was, of ...

Bengali poet, fiction writer and playwright Sukumar Ray (1887-1923) was perhaps the most famous practitioner of “literary nonsense” in the subcontinent. He is often compared to Lewis Carroll. His ...