Dr. Debesh Thakur

Education

M.A.(English), B.Ed

Diploma in Information Science

Ph.D (on Charlie Chaplin)

Persuing Post Doctorate in Vaisnava Culture and Advaita Acharya

Family

Parents : Souresh-Shanti Thakur

Spouce : Manika Thakur (Service in Burdwan Bidyarthi Girls High School)

Offspring : Souradeep Thakur (St. Xavier's School, Burdwan • Amity University (Physics), Kolkata University of Delhi (THeoritical Physics) • SINP (Research Scholar - 2022) • University of Cincinnati, OH, USA - 2022 Onwards

Service

Teacher in English Literature

FOunder Secretay AIINAA (All India Institute of National Applied Art) Estd. 1988, Regd. 2010

Chief Editor of Shrutibak (শ্রুতিবাক), a Tri-Monthly Literary Journal

Vice President, Gobindadham Trust Committee

Working President, Bardhaman Sahitya Parishad (Estd. 1901 by Maharaja of Bardhaman, Bijoychand Mahatab)

Vice President, DW&AA, Purba Bardhaman

Cultural Convenor, 108 Shiva Temple Committee, Burdwan

President, Burdwan Bachik Shilpi Samanway

Trustee, SVAEE, Burdwan

Organization

AIINAA

(All India Institute of National Applied Arts)

About Dr. Debesh Thakur

Dr. Debesh Thakur is a reputed Writer, Poet, Author, Novelist and Director.

Cultural Participations

As dramatist wrote about 95 plays
Audio Cassette : ‘Bharatbarsha Ebong’, ‘Swadesh Amar’, ‘Ratnakar’
Direcred telefilm ‘Dangshan’
Directed documentaries : Subhas, Hool, Ramkinkar
Regular performer / Presenter for Doordarshan
Script for Audio Cassette : Shami, Bhubaneswari, Setu, Suryamukhi
Cultural tour to Dhaka (Bangladesh), Delhi, Mumbai, Bhopal, Pondicherry, Chennai, Tirubanantapuram, Goa, Agartala, Silchar, Gowhati, Bhubaneswar
Performance in UK (18th Oct - 2 Nov, 2010) London, Harrow, Liverpool, Manchester etc
Performance in Dhaka, Bangladesh ( 31 Jan - 3 Feb, 2011)
Performance in Thailand

Workshop and Training

Workshop on culture and Education in Delhi (1996, 2002), Gwahati (1999, 2003) by CCRT (Govt. of India)
Workshop in Bhopal, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar
Participated in ALL India Dramatists’ Confederation in Pondicherry (1992)
Performed plays (Bharat Gnyan Bigyan Jatha) all over India
Part time teacher in Journalism and Mass Communication
Part time teacher in Drama
Seminar in Goa, Mumbai, Silchar, Agartala

Awards

Special Literary Award by Publishers & Book Sellers Guild for novel ‘MON’ in Kolkata Book fair 2005
Sabyasachi Award for recitation by Nazrul Academy (1999)
Award as best Playwright-director in an All India Drama Festival

Creations and Publications

Dr Debesh Thakus has written many books, poems, novels, dramas, published short stories, essayes, poems, columns in journals. He has also published many audio CDs which showcase many of his poems recited in his mesmerizing voice. He has directed many telefilms. Some of his creations and publications are listed below-

Publications (Books))

Art of Charlie Chaplin - Aesthetics of Organic Dynamism
ভাঙতে ভাঙতে প্রতিদিন (Collection of poems)
নির্বাচিত কবিতা
ঈশা
চারটি একাঙ্ক (Collection of four one act plays)
নির্বাচিত একাঙ্ক (Collection of eleven one act plays)
লন্ড ভন্ড (poems for children)
বৈঁচিকুল (poems for children)
ছড়ায় মোড়া (poems for children)
মৃত্তিকাজাতক (biography of father)
অদ্বৈত প্রকাশ : ইশাননগর (Ed.)
বর্ধমান রাজনংশানুচরিত (Ed. / Jointly)
সাহিত্যিক অভিধান (Ed. / Jointly)
তেরো থেকে তেইশ (poems)
নির্বাচিত ছড়া
সেই দামিনীর জন্য
কবিতা সমগ্র
গাংচিল
কলকাতা
অমলতাস

CD Release

পরমপুরুষ (based on Life of Sri Ramkrishna in Kashipur, 1886)
Chicago Addresses (English & Bengali) (Tribute to Swami Vivekananda on 150th Birth Anniversary)
একটি নমস্কারে (Tribute to Sriman Mahanambrata Bramhachari, Jointly with Suman Bhattacharya)
শেষ সংলাপ
গীতাঞ্জলি
আমি কাদম্বরী(with Indrani Sen)
নতুন বৌঠান (with Saheb Chattopadhyay)
সেই দামিনীর জন্য
ভুবনেশ্বরী (শ্যামাসংগীত)
কুড়ি মিনিট
Soumitra
নিবেদিতা
আমি মৃণালিনী
শমী