Protiva Bose

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.

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

Biography

She was born in a village near Dhaka in 1915[1][2][3] to Asutosh Shome and Sarajubala Shome. 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. Several of her novels have been made into successful movies.[3] After becoming a best-seller, publishers fought against each other for her books.

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.

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.

References
  1. "Pratibha Basu, R.I.P." Outlook. PTI. 13 October 2006. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  2. Clifford, Pat (2008). "George Oppen, Buddhadev Bose and Translation". Jacket2.
  3. 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. Chowdhury, HQ (25 September 2010). "Of men and music". The Daily Star. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  6. Banerjee, Sudeshna (1 March 2015). "Women and word power". The Telegraph. Calcutta. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015.
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