Red Ant Black Ant
Girindrasekhar Basu; translated by Sukanta Chaudhuri
Description
Lal-kalo, a book for children written nearly a hundred years ago in 1930, is one of the
most curious examples of Bengali juvenile literature. Its author, Girindrasekhar Basu,
is regarded as the father of Indian psychoanalysis. In 1911, he began a decade-long
correspondence with Sigmund Freud on cultural variations in psychoanalytic concepts
and founded the Indian Psychoanalytic Society in Calcutta in 1922. Lal-kalo, a
delightful story about the battle between the red ants and the black ants, with an all-
singing and dancing cast of owls, geckos, frogs, snakes and the like, has remained a
perennial children’s favourite ever since.
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Author Biography
Girindrashekhar Bose (1887-1953), physician and pioneering psychoanalyst, was born in Nadia district in Bengal. After completing a B.Sc. from Presidency College, in 1905, he obtained his medical degree from Calcutta Medical College in 1910.
In 1911, he began a decade-long correspondence with Sigmund Freud on cultural variations in psychoanalytic concepts. In 1922, Girindrashekhar founded the Indian Psychoanalytic Society in Calcutta. His major works include Everyday Psychoanalysis and The Concept of Repression in English, and Swapna, Puran-Prabesh and Manobidyar Paribhasha in Bengali. Lal-Kalo, his only work for a juvenile readership, was first published in 1930, with illustrations by Jatindrakumar Sen.
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- Publisher Jadavpur University Press(Publications)
- ISBN/Identifier 9789383660599
- Publication Country or regionIndia
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 200 INR
- Pages67
- ReadershipChildren
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleLaal Kalo
- Original Language AuthorsGirindrasekhar Basu
- Edition1st
- Copyright Year2020
- Illustration21
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