Ramendra Sundar Tribedi (22 August 1864 – 6 June 1919) was a renowned
Bengali
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author. He is known for his works in
Bengali
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poems
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, and
stories. He is one of the most popular poets of
India
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.
Life
Ramendra Sundar Tribedi was born at Kandi, Murshidabad in
West Bengal
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on 22 August 1864. His father's name was Govindasundar and his mother's name was Chandra Kamini.
From his childhood, Tribedi was a successful student. After obtaining his B.Sc. degree (coming first in the exams), he competed for the prestigious Premchand Roychand Scholarship with
physics
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and
chemistry
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as his subjects. He won the scholarship (1888). The examiners' report said:
"The candidate who took up Chemistry and Physics appears to be about the best student who has yet taken up these subjects for the examination and on this account deserves recognition."
Tribedi was a teacher at and, later, the principal of the
Ripon College as well as
Surendranath Law College
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of
Kolkata
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.
Ramendra Sundar Trivedi died on 6 June 1919 at
Kolkata
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in
West Bengal
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.
Writing career
Ramendra Sundar was a polymath who wrote on a host of themes, including popular science and the
philosophy of science
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. His first articles appeared in the periodical 'Navajiban'.
His contribution to the functioning and development of the
Bangiya Sahitya Parishad
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is considered to be momentous.
In Bengal, Ramendra Sundar's fame rests mostly on his popular science essays. As a popular science writer, Ramendra's commitment seems to have been "to share with everyone else the fun, the delight and ecstasy of science (in Ramendra’s case, the themes and findings of modern western science). This could only be achieved by dissolving the alien terms and themes in an indigenous, flexible, and comprehensible linguistic medium. Thus, when creating scientific terms, Ramendra took care to select words which were sweet sounding and easily pronounced, drew examples from mythology, folklore and local traditions…, cemented his prose with humour, lined his comments with mild irony and talked of the gravest things with his tongue in his cheek. In this witty, sly, sceptical, gay and eminently human vein, he dragged science, epistemology and philosophy into the midst of a Bengali adda and domesticated them on the couch of a bhadralok’s drawing room."
[Santanu Chacraverti, ''Ramendrasundar Trivedi: A Pathbreaking Populariser of Science in Bengal'', in NK Sehgal, S. Sangwan, and S. Mahanti (eds.) Uncharted Terrains: Essays on Science Popularisation in Pre-Independence India, Vigyan Prasar, New Delhi, 2000, p. 84]
Books
*Prakriti
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*Charit-Katha [Collected essays and lectures on few eminent personalities in Bengali literature]
*Bichitra Prasanga
*Bangalakshmir Bratakatha
*Bangla Sahityer Itihas [Vol- Adhunik Jug, Page 111] By Dr. Debesh Kumar Acharya
Honours
The
Ramendra Sundar Tribedi Setu over the river
Bhāgirathi-Hooghly is named after him. This bridge connects
Baharampur
Berhampore (, ) is a city and a municipality in the state of West Bengal, India. As of 2011 census, Berhampore urban agglomeration had a population of 305,609 and is the seventh largest city in West Bengal (after Kolkata, Asansol, Siliguri, ...
and
Khagraghat in
Murshidabad district of
West Bengal
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by
NH 12 (previously NH 34).
References
External links
*
Tribedi, Ramendra Sundarat the West Bengal Public Library Network
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Ramendra Sundar Tribedi
Ramendra Sundar Tribedi (22 August 1864 – 6 June 1919) was a renowned Bengali author. He is known for his works in Bengali poems, and stories. He is one of the most popular poets of India.
Life
Ramendra Sundar Tribedi was born at Kandi, Murshi ...
Ramendra Sundar Tribedi
Ramendra Sundar Tribedi (22 August 1864 – 6 June 1919) was a renowned Bengali author. He is known for his works in Bengali poems, and stories. He is one of the most popular poets of India.
Life
Ramendra Sundar Tribedi was born at Kandi, Murshi ...
1864 births
1919 deaths
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