Roald Dahl's Death Anniversary

 

Roald Dahl, who passed away on 23 November 1990, was a British author of popular children’s literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace.  His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. He has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century".

Dahl's short stories are known for their unexpected endings, and his children's books for their unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult enemies of the child characters. His children's books champion the kind-hearted and feature an underlying warm sentiment His works for children include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, The Twits, George’s Marvellous Medicine and Danny, the Champion of the World. His works for older audiences include the short story collections Tales of the Unexpected and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.

Geeta Dutt's Birth Anniversary

 

Geeta Dutt, born on 23 November 1930, was a prominent Indian playback singer and a famous Hindi and Bengali classical artist, born in Faridpur before the Partition of India. She found particular prominence as a playback singer in Hindi cinema. She also sang many modern Bengali songs, both in the film and non-film genre.

Geeta Dutt, mesmerised audiences with ‘Babuji Dhire Chalna'(Aar Paar – 1954) and ‘Mera Naam Chin Chin Chu'(Howrah Bridge – 1958) Geeta who trained under K. Hanuman Prasad first sang in the mythological film ‘Bhakt Prahlad’ (1946). In a career of almost twenty-five years Geeta Dutt crooned over 1200 songs for Hindi films including ‘Mera Sundar Sapna Beet Gaya’ (Do bhai – 1947) ‘Tadbir Se Bigdi Hui Taqdeer’ (Baazi – 1951) ‘Jaane Kahan Mera Jigar Gaya Ji’ (Mr. & Mrs. ’55 – 1955) ‘Aye dil hain mushkil’ (C.I.D – 1956) ‘Na Jao Saiyaan Chhuda Ke Baiyaan’ (Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam – 1962) etc. She last sang for music director Kanu Roy in ‘Anubhav’ (1971).

Jagadish Chandra Boses's Death Anniversary

 

Jagadish Chandra Bose, who passed away on 23 November 1937, was an Indian polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction. He pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics, made significant contributions to plant science, and laid the foundations of experimental science in the Indian subcontinent. IEEE named him one of the fathers of radio science. Bose is considered the father of Bengali science fiction, and also invented the crescograph, a device for measuring the growth of plants. A crater on the moon has been named in his honour.