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The Invention of Shoe

The Invention of Shoe Book

The Invention of Shoe

By Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee

Category: Perky Parrot Books
ISBN: 978-81-19626-28-1
MRP: 250
Illustrated by: Prof. Sekhar Mukherjee

The invention of one of the worldโ€™s most popular apparel, the
shoe, is widely unknown. The polymath Rabindranath Tagore
imagines the invention of the shoe by humorously telling
the story of a petulant king. King Habu wakes up one day to
realise that his royal feet are always too soiled by the dust of
the earth. So he beckons his trusted Minister Gabu over and
demands him to find a solution to this problem. This initiates a
long search for a solution that turns the peace of the kingdom
upside and causes an uproar. How will the kingโ€™s demand
be satisfied?

The Invention of Shoe
Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee

Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee taught English Literature at Gauhati University for ten years and Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University for five years. He then joined Sahitya Akademiโ€™s Eastern Regional Office at Kolkata as its Secretary. After putting in a decade there, he shifted to Delhi and worked as the Director of the National Book Trust, India for a five-year tenure. Later, he also worked as the Editor of Sahitya Akademiโ€™s prestigious journal Indian Literature for five years and Director of K. K. Birla Foundation, New Delhi for six years. Currently, he functions as the Editorial Director of Niyogi Books. An accomplished translator from Bengali into English and vice versa, his English translations of fictions of Mahasveta Devi, Sunil Gangaopadhyay, and Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay have been well received. He has also translated a short story collection of U. R. Anantamurthy and a novel by Viswas Patil into Bengali. Recipient of the best translatorโ€™s award from IBBY Congress, Mr. Bhattacharjee has also edited a collection of stories of displacement from Assam.

Format: Paperback
Size: 216mm x 216mm
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