The Author Annesha Banerjee Follow Current Read The Story of Nabanita Deb Sen By Annesha Banerjee English Biography Share Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Featured Books HAPPINESS - 147 **Your Gaze** Your eyes are conveying something through subt... The Art of Living Again - 7 Chapter 7 – The Question She Couldn't EscapeThe café was... Wisps of Smoke - 28 Wisps of Smoke (A love, romantic, psychological and paranorm... The Story of Demon Monkeys The Demon Monkeys are the main villains of Temple Run is a m... Vedanta 2.0 Philosophical Agyat Agyaniअज्ञात अज्ञानीIndependent Researcher & Philosop... Categories Short Stories Spiritual Stories Fiction Stories Motivational Stories Classic Stories Children Stories Comedy stories Magazine Poems Travel stories Women Focused Drama Love Stories Detective stories Moral Stories Adventure Stories Human Science Philosophy Health Biography Cooking Recipe Letter Horror Stories Film Reviews Mythological Stories Book Reviews Thriller Science-Fiction Business Sports Animals Astrology Science Anything Crime Stories Share The Story of Nabanita Deb Sen 264 963 Nabanita Dev Sen is a prize-winning poet, storyteller and a scholar. After studying arts and an analogous literature, she went to USA, where she continued with her studies. After completing her studies, she returned to India, trained several students in universities and institutes and held several positions in academic institutions . She had published more than eighty books in Bengali, such as songs, anecdotes, tales, dramas, textual criticism, direct attempts, travel stories, satirical wits, summaries and children's literature. She was born on 13th January 1938 in Kolkata , West Bengal. Her father's name was Narendra Deb and her mother's name was Radharani Devi. Her parents were poets and her mother Radharani Devi wrote under the pen name Aparajita Devi. When Nabanita Dev Sen was a child, she saw Second World War air attacks, observed malnourished people during the Bengal famine in 1983 and the effect of huge number of patriots coming in Calcutta after the partition of India. She had completed her schooling at Gokhale Memorial Girl's School, and after that she had pursued her graduation in English from Presidency College; she did her post graduation in comparative literature at Jadavpur University in 1958 and also pursued post-graduation with distinction in comparative literature from Harvard University; and in 1964 she pursued her doctorate course from Indiana University Bloomington. After that, she pursued her post-doctorate training at the University of California Berkeley, and Newnham College, Cambridge. She was an in-house author at various global experts' territories such Yaddo and MacDowell Colony in the United States; Bellagio in Italy; and the Mishkenot and Sha'anamin in Jerusalem. From the year 1988 to 1989, she held the Maytag Chair of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at Colorado College. She was a guest lecturer and a visiting novelist at various universities such as Harvard University, Cornell University, the University of Columbia, Chicago University, Humboldt University, Universities of Toronto, British Columbia University at Canada, the University of Melbourne, New South Wales in Australia and El Collegio de México. She released the Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture sequence from the year 1996-1997 at Oxford University on the heroic poem. In 2002, she retired as a Lecturer of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Calcutta. She was a University Grants Commission Senior Research Fellow at University of Delhi. From the year 2003 till 2005 she was the prominent member at the Centre of Women's Development Studies in New Delhi . In 1986, she expressed herself and India in several global meetings, both academic and literary, and at the Festival of India USA. She was a representative of the Social Network for Assistance to People that produced an innovative survey in 2014 that showed the absolute poverty among the Muslim neighbours of West Bengal. During the year 1973-1979, she held leading positions in the International Comparative Literature Association and the International Association of Semiotic and Structural Studies. In 1985, she married Amartya Sen, a financial expert and an educationist and then a professor of economics at Jadavpur University, who had achieved the Nobel Prize four years later. She moved to Britain with Amartya Sen and had two children, Antara Dev Sen and Nandana Sen. In 1976, she was separated from her husband and moved to Calcutta with Antara Dev Sen and Nandana Sen and adopted another girl child, Srabasti Basu. She liked to read, record and travel. Apart from reading books in Bengali and English languages she could read Hindi, Oriya, Assamese, French , German, Greek, Sanskrit and Herbew. She was the writer of the book named Kathakali. On 7th November 2019 she lost her life after being suffering from cancer . Download Our App
