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Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021): A poet who could not be compared with any of his contemporaries


Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021): A poet who could not be compared with any of his contemporaries
Poet K Satchidandan re-reads Shankha Ghosh’s poetry in tribute.
Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021).
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Artwork based on photograph by Biswarup Ganguly / CC BY 3.0
Shankha Ghosh was a poet of suggestions and subtleties, seldom strident or flamboyant like the “Hungry Poets”, who were his contemporaries. His poems are essentially lyrical, poems of moods and feelings, though always filtered and moderated by his sharp intellect, which distinguished him from the romantic crowd.
He was not a narrative poet either, though at times his poems tend to have narrative contexts, questions, conversations and colloquial expressions. It is difficult to compare him with any of his contemporaries, or those who lived and wrote before or after him. He modernised Tagore’s legacy by distilling his style; he could be imagistic like Jibanananda Das, but was rarely nostalgic ....

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Sankha Ghosh: A Poet and Face Beyond Advertisements


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. “The most discussed young poet in those days was Sankha Ghosh,” wrote Gangopadhyay in his autobiography 
Ardhek Jibon (
Half a Life, Ananda Publishers, Calcutta, 2002):
“Narayan Gangopadhyay [novelist] had read his [Ghosh’s] 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 Ghosh’s poetry. His handwriting was like pearls, and each poem shone like a diamond. Perhaps, it was in this no ....

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