Sinha Laksmiswar

Laksmiswar Sinha ( born June 6, 1905 in Rarisal in northeastern India, † 22 April 1977 in Shantiniketan, India) was Indian esperantist and shop class teacher in Santiniketan, Bengal. He was Tagore's friend and pupil, probably the most famous asiatic Esperanto speakers, with the exception of Japan.

Sent to Sweden, he studied in the years 1928/29, the school shop class. During his stay in Stockholm in 1928 he esperantist; He passed all the tests of the SEI (Svenska Institutet Esperanto ). At the suggestion of Ernfrid Malmgren he began in September 1929 to go on lecture tours. In Sweden alone, he put back 10 000 km given more than 200 lectures, two of them on the radio, in a total of some 30 000 listeners .. In the fall of 1930 he undertook a tour of Estonia and Lithuania, during which he gives lectures .. Then leads him a two-month lecture tour of Poland, where he holds 40 lectures in 22 cities before about 8,000 listeners. He had to return to India in August 1931. There he published articles about Esperanto, and he also was the country delegate of the World Federation UEA.

In the fall of 1933 he came again to Sweden. In 1936 his interesting book " Hindo rigardas Svedlandon " ( An Indian considers Sweden) appears. His translation of the seven stories of Rabindranath Thakur, " Malsata Stono " ( Hungry Stone ) of 1961 established the Serio Oriento - Okcidento ( series Orient - Occident ).

Thanks to his efforts to create an Esperanto movement in India, the Bengala Esperanto - Instituto was founded in 1963. In the same year the brochure " Esperanto Movado " ( Esperanto movement ) appeared in Bengali language. The Eldona Societo Esperanto published in 1966 in Sweden Sinha's autobiography " Jaroj sur tero " ( Years on Earth ). Sinha's last work - " facila Esperanta lernolibro " ( A Simple Esperanto textbook ) - was published in Bengali in 1974.

Publications

• Sivaĝi a historic Dramolett (original in Esperanto ), 1928
• 3 Bengalaj fabeloj (3 Bengali fairy tales) The God, the beggar and the miraculous pots; The fakir and the prince, what is wisdom?; 1930 ( also translated into Swedish ), ISBN 91-7303-111-9
• Kaj CIO Resta penso, sed ne faro ( And everything can be thought of, nothing is fact ), 1931 ( a brochure for interpersonal communication )
• Hindo rigardas Svedlandon ( An Indian considers Sweden), Lakshmiswar Sinha, foreword by Björn Collinder, Stockholm. Publisher: Soc. Esperanto Esperanto = Förlagsforeningen, 1936 (in the archives of the CDELI ), 200 pages, illustrated and portrayed. ; 22 cm RERO: R003147585
• Esperanto - movado ( The Esperanto movement ), 1963 ( in Bengali )
• Jaroj sur tero ( years on the earth), Malmö: Eldona Societo Esperanto, 1966 ( autobiography ), ( in the archives of CDELI ) RERO: R003789761
• Facila Esperanta lernolibro ( A simple Esperanto textbook ), 1974 ( in Bengali )