Bhabani Bhattacharya

BHABANI BHATTACHARYA (1906-1988), a distinguished novelist, cultural historian and political scientist, was born in Bhagalpur, Bihar, and received his Doctorate from London University. Starting his writing career with Mouchak in Bengali, he went on to write for The Manchester Guardian and The Spectator.A remarkable feature of his writings was its purposeful thrust and social relevance which is almost timeless — as relevant in the present times as it was then. His works include a collection of fifteen short stories, The Steel Hawk and five novels including So Many Hungers (1947), Music for Mohini (1952), He Who Rides a Tiger (1954) and Shadow from Ladakh (1967). In 1967 he was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award.A writer of great sensitivity and an unequalled master in interpreting India, his works have been translated in over 25 languages, including twenty-one European languages, Sinhalese and Hebrew.