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Protiva Bose

Protiva Bose
BornRanu Shome
(1915-03-13)13 March 1915
near Dhaka, India
Died13 October 2006(2006-10-13) (aged 91)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Protiva Bose (also spelled Pratibha Basu; Bengali: প্রতিভা বসু) (March 13, 1915 – 13 October 2006) was a singer and one of the most prolific and widely read Bengali writers of novels, short stories, and essays.

Biography

She was born in a village near Dhaka in 1915[1][2][3] to Asutosh Shome and Sarajubala Shome.[citation needed] She was known as Ranu Shome before she married the Bengali writer, Buddhadev Bose in 1934.[1][2][4][5] She had two daughters, Meenakshi Dutta and Damayanti Basu Singh, and a son, Suddhasil Bose, who died at the age of 42.[1][6] One of her granddaughters, Kankabati Dutta, is also a well-known writer in Bengali.[3]

Bose was also a singer of popular songs. She was a pupil of Ustad Gul Mohammad Khan.[5] The poet Nazrul Islam, singer Dilip Kumar Roy, and Rabindranath Tagore admired her voice and taught her their own songs.[1][5] She made her first LP at the age of 12 and continued until the 1940s, when she gave up singing and started writing.[5][6]

Bose has written 200 books, all of which have been commercially successful.[1] Monolina was her first novel, published in 1940.[citation needed] Several of her novels have been made into successful movies.[3] After becoming a best-seller, publishers fought against each other for her books.[citation needed]

She had been known to be a great lover of animals. She was paralyzed from head to toe in 1972 because of an adverse reaction to an anti-rabies shot, which had become necessary as she was rescuing stray dogs who had rabies.[citation needed]

She died on 13 October 2006, in Kolkata from "prolonged illness".[1]

Awards and honours

She was awarded 'Bhubonmohini' gold medal from the University of Calcutta for her contribution in Bengali language and literature. She was also awarded the Ananda Purashkar.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Pratibha Basu, R.I.P." Outlook. 13 October 2006. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b Clifford, Pat (2008). "George Oppen, Buddhadev Bose and Translation". Jacket2.
  3. ^ a b c Sengupta, Ratnottama (10 January 2015). "Soi Mela salutes Pratibha Basu". The Times of India. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  4. ^ Sarkar, Sebanti (30 November 2008). "Treading the boards with Buddhadeva". The Telegraph India. Calcutta: The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 February 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d Chowdhury, HQ (25 September 2010). "Of men and music". The Daily Star. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  6. ^ a b Banerjee, Sudeshna (1 March 2015). "Women and word power". The Telegraph. Calcutta. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015.
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