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 (M.Sc., Delhi University, Research Scholar)

Service

Teacher in English Literature

Editor of Shrutibak (শ্রুতিবাক), a quarterly journal on literature and research

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

  1. 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

Directions

  • Dangshan (দংশন) - Feature
  • Bodh (বোধ) - Feature
  • Soumitra (সৌমিত্রের পাঁচালি) - Documentary
  • Subhas Bose - Documentary

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Video Gallery

গান্ধী - দেবেশ ঠাকুর | Gandhi - Dr Debesh Thakur

মহামারী - দেবেশ ঠাকুর | Mahamari - Dr Debesh Thakur

Drama - Shudrajug (শূদ্রযুগ ). Live performance of Debesh Thakur

BHARATBARSHA - ভারতবর্ষ | Recitation by Debesh Thakur

Damini - Recitation of Debesh Thakur

Bhagat Singh - Recitation of Debesh Thakur

Border Baul - Dr. Debesh Thakur. বর্ডার বাউল - দেবেশ ঠাকুর

শক্তিরূপেণ - দেবেশ ঠাকুর। Shaktirupena - Dr Debesh Thakur

Get In Touch

Contact Info

Address47/A Kalibazar (East), Purba Burdwan - 713103
West Bengal, India

Phone +91 97320 50184

Email debeshthakur@gmail.com