Bengali language prolific writer Samaresh Basu also known as KALKUT & BHRAMAR. His life experiences populated his writings with themes ranging from political activism to working class life, and to sexuality.
Samaresh Basu remained the most representative storyteller of Bengal’s suburban life, as distinct from other well-known Bengali authors who had faithfully painted the life and problems of either Bengal’s rural society or the urban middle class. Basu draws on his lived experience of Calcutta’s ‘half-rural, half-urban,’ industrial suburbs” – Sumanta Banerjee.
His writings depicted the lives of the common people from all over India and all walks of life including those who live on the periphery of the mainstream with their varied cultures and religious practices in a unique style that was Kalkut’s own. He also drew upon the recollections of the Puranas and Itihas; Shamba, an interesting modern interpretation of the Puranic tales
