Bengali language writer Late Leela Majumdar. Apart from her glittering array of children’s literature, she wrote a cookbook, novels for adults (Sreemoti, Cheena Lanthan), and a biography of Rabindranath Tagore. She joined Maharani Girls’ School at Darjeeling as a teacher in 1931.
On an invitation from Rabindranath Tagore she went and joined the school at Santiniketan, but she stayed only for about one year. She joined the women’s section of Asutosh College in Calcutta but again did not continue for long. Thereafter, she spent most of her time as a writer. After two decades as a writer, she joined All India Radio as a producer and worked for about seven-eight years.
Her first published book was Boddi Nather Bari (1939) but her second compilation Din Dupure (1948) brought her considerable fame From the 1950s, her incomparable children’s classics followed. Although humour was her forte, she also wrote detective stories, ghost stories and fantasies.
