Sankha Ghosh: A Poet and Face Beyond Advertisements
The death of the litterateur ends the generation of post-Independence Bengali poets.
Sankha Ghosh (1932-2021) . Photo: Twitter
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Bengali poet and novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay recalled collecting poems of his contemporary Sankha Ghosh for the inaugural edition of the legendary little magazine
Krittibas in 1953. âThe most discussed young poet in those days was Sankha Ghosh,â wrote Gangopadhyay in his autobiographyÂ
Ardhek Jibon (
Half a Life, Ananda Publishers, Calcutta, 2002):
“Narayan Gangopadhyay [novelist] had read his [Ghoshâs] poetry to his students in the Bengali class at City College. We were also enamoured after reading his poetry in Parichay. We must have his poems. And we were delighted to get our hand on an entire notebook of Shankha Ghoshâs poetry. His handwriting was like pearls, and each poem shone like a diamond. Perhaps, it was in this notebook that he was putting