Somai Kisku | |
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| Born | 25 February 1959 Basantapur village, Barddhaman, West Bengal, India |
| Occupation | Ideologist, writer, and Santal Spiritualism |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Subject | Sari Dharam |
Somai Kisku (born 1959) is an Indian writer in Santali language. [1]
He formed Hooghly Zila Santali Sahitya Parisad in 1988, which is now known as Santali Sahitya Baisi. He has been conducting Santali Sahitya Baisi with honesty, devotion and competence from the beginning until now. [7]
Somai Kisku was born on 25th February 1959 at Basantapur, a small village, under the Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal in the peasant family of Rasiklal Kisku and Fulmani Kisku. He is the third son of his parents among their ten children. He received his early education from Basantapur Gourmohan Primary School and then studied at Jamalpur Higher Secondary School. Later he was admitted to Boinchigram Bihari Lal High School in the ninth class and passed Higher Secondary in 1976. He obtained a bachelor degree from Haripal Vivekannda College, under the University of Burdwan in 1981. Thereafter he joined as an Inspector in the Department of West Bengal Essential Commodities Supply Corporation. He retired after completing his long service career in 2019.
In the late eighties, extreme poverty, illiteracy, daily life struggles and the experience of the real situation at that time led him to begin to write.