1. Leela Majumdar was an Indian Bengali-language writer.
12 Facts About Leela Majumdar
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Leela Majumdar was the first among Indians to visit Kailash and Mansarovar and wrote a travelogue Himaranya.
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Leela Majumdar ranked second among the girls in the matriculation examinations in 1924.
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Leela Majumdar stood first in English both in her honours and Master of Arts examination at the University of Calcutta.
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Leela Majumdar joined Maharani Girls' School at Darjeeling as a teacher in 1931.
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Leela Majumdar joined the women's section of Asutosh College in Calcutta but again did not continue for long.
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Leela Majumdar's first published book was Boddi Nather Bari but her second compilation Din Dupere brought her considerable fame from the 1950s, her incomparable children's classics followed.
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Leela Majumdar lectured on Abanindranath Tagore and translated his writings on art into English.
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Leela Majumdar translated Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea into Bengali.
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In 1933 she married Dr Sudhir Kumar Leela Majumdar, a renowned dentist who was a graduate of the Harvard Dental School.
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Leela Majumdar had won the Suresh Smriti Puraskar, Vidyasagar Puraskar, Bhubaneswari Medal for lifetime achievement, and Ananda Puraskar.
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In 2019, a documentary film has been made on Lila Leela Majumdar entitled "Peristan - The World of Lila Leela Majumdar ".