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Abol tabol sukumar ray bengali poetry collection
Abol tabol (Bengali: আবোল তাবোল; listen ; literally "weird and random") is a collection of Bengali children's poems and rhymes composed by Sukumar Ray, first published on 19 September 1923 by U. Ray and Sons publishers. It consists of 43 named and 7 unnamed short rhymes, all considered to be in the genre of literary nonsense.
Contents
Abol tabol by sukumar roy nursery rhymes bengali
Significance
Bengali readers were exposed to a new nonsense fantasy world by the poems in Abol Tabol. This selection offers the best of Sukumar Ray's world of pun-riddled poetry.
Characters
His collection had several characters which became legendary in Bengali literature and culture. Some characters even have found idiomatic usage in the language.
Some of the most famous characters in "Abol tabol" are:
References
Abol Tabol Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA