He is one of the most popular poets of India Ramendra Sundar Tribedi was born at Kandi, Murshidabad in West Bengal on 22 August 1864.

degree (coming first in the exams), he won the prestigious Premchand Roychand Scholarship in 1888 with physics and chemistry as his subjects.

This could only be achieved by dissolving the alien terms and themes in an indigenous, flexible, and comprehensible linguistic medium.

Thus, when creating scientific terms, Ramendra took care to select words which were sweet sounding and easily pronounced, drew examples from mythology, folklore and local traditions..., cemented his prose with humour, lined his comments with mild irony and talked of the gravest things with his tongue in his cheek.

In this witty, sly, sceptical, gay and eminently human vein, he dragged science, epistemology and philosophy into the midst of a Bengali adda and domesticated them on the couch of a bhadralok's drawing room.