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Indian writer (1908–2007)

Leela Majumdar (26 February 1908^[1] – 5 April 2007) was an Indian Bengali-language writer.

Early life

Born to Surama Devi and Pramada Ranjan Ray (who was the younger brother of Upendra Kishor Ray Choudhuri), Leela spent her childhood days at Shillong, where she studied at the Loreto Convent.^[2] Surama Devi had been adopted by Upendra Kishor Ray Choudhuri .

Lila's grandfather had left his younger two daughters in care of his friends after his wife died. The eldest daughter was sent to a boarding house.

Lila Majumdar, one of our best and best-loved children's writers in Bengali, was born in a famous Brahmo milieu in As a young woman, she had been a.

We begin with autobiography, of course restricting the scope mostly to literary autobiographies.

Fruits of Knowledge: Polemics, Humour and Moral Education in the Writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Lila Majumdar and Nabaneeta Dev Sen.

Using the sentence lengths we compare the writings of two of the most famous Bengali authors of post Tagore era.

Adventures of Ghanada by Premendra Mitra (translated by Leela Majumdar).

Her maternal grandfather was Ramkumar Bhattacharya, who later became a sannyasi and was christened Ramananda Bharati. He was the first among Indians to visit Kailash and Mansarovar and wrote a travelogue Himaranya. In 1919, her father was transferred to Calcutta, and she joined St.

John's Diocesan School from where she completed her matriculation examination.^[1] She ranked second among the girls in the