Abu Sayeed Ayyub

Abu Sayeed Ayyub was an Indian philosopher, teacher, literary critic and writer in both Bengali and English. Though born into an Urdu-speaking Muslim family in Kolkata, he was so captivated in his early teenage by the poems of Rabindranath Tagore that he taught himself Bengali so as to appreciate Tagore better. Later, when he started to write, it was mostly in his adopted language, Bengali. During the initial part of his writing career, Ayyub wrote on aesthetics, religion and socialism. However, it was his philosophical and scientific analysis of creative literature—in particular the poetry and the drama of Tagore—that finally brought him wide recognition as “one of the most serious and original Tagore scholars”. Ayyub is also credited with “co-editing the first anthology of modern Bengali poetry”. He taught philosophy at the University of Calcutta, the Visva-Bharati University, and the University of Melbourne, and edited the literary and philosophical journal Quest.

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