TY - BOOK AU - Bose,Buddhadeva AU - Chaudhuri,Rosinka AU - Bose,Buddhadeva TI - An Acre of green grass and other English writings of Buddhadeva Bose SN - 9780199483600 AV - PK1708 .B63 2018 U1 - 891.4409 22 PY - 2018/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Tagore, Rabindranath, KW - Bengali literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - Buddhadeva Bose received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967 and was felicitated with the Padma Bhushan in 1970. Few realize that Bose was also one of the best writers of English prose in modern Indian writing in English.This book brings together, for the first time, a selection of his writings in the English language. Boseଓs subjects range from world literature, Bengali writers and Tagore, to Bengali gastronomy, Picasso and the films of Charlie Chaplin. These wide-ranging and diverse essays are not only a delight to read, they are also some of the best literary criticisms written by an Indian critic since Independence ER -