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জন্ম ১৯৩১এর সেপ্টেম্বরে, আদিবাস কালীপুর, ময়মনসিংহ, দেশবিভাগের পর কলকাতায়। পিতা ধীরেন্দ্রকান্ত লাহিড়ী চৌধুরী, মাতা রেণুকা দেবী চৌধুরানী।
প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ থেকে কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের এমএ, লিডস ইউনিভার্সিটির পিএইচডি। রবীন্দ্রভারতী থেকে দীর্ঘদিন অধ্যাপনার পর অবসর নেন।
'হাতির বই'-এর জন্য পেয়েছেন আনন্দ পুরষ্কার (১৪১৪)।

Dhriti K. Lahiri Choudhury grew up in Mymensingh district now in Bangladesh inhabiting a near mythic feudal world of household elephants shikar Indian classical music and good food. The partition of his country ended this lifestyle but not his obsession with elephants.

Over seventy years he trawled the forests of lower Assam Barak Valley West Bengal Meghalaya Arunachal Pradesh and Orissa as well as Uttaranchal Mudum জন্ম ১৯৩১এর সেপ্টেম্বরে, আদিবাস কালীপুর, ময়মনসিংহ, দেশবিভাগের পর কলকাতায়। পিতা ধীরেন্দ্রকান্ত লাহিড়ী চৌধুরী, মাতা রেণুকা দেবী চৌধুরানী।
প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ থেকে কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের এমএ, লিডস ইউনিভার্সিটির পিএইচডি। রবীন্দ্রভারতী থেকে দীর্ঘদিন অধ্যাপনার পর অবসর নেন।
'হাতির বই'-এর জন্য পেয়েছেন আনন্দ পুরষ্কার (১৪১৪)।

Dhriti K. Lahiri Choudhury grew up in Mymensingh district now in Bangladesh inhabiting a near mythic feudal world of household elephants shikar Indian classical music and good food. The partition of his country ended this lifestyle but not his obsession with elephants.

Over seventy years he trawled the forests of lower Assam Barak Valley West Bengal Meghalaya Arunachal Pradesh and Orissa as well as Uttaranchal Mudumalai Bandipur and Periyar.
His experience with elephants includes tracking them in undivided Assam penetrating remote areas in pursuit of declared man killing rogues. He surveyed the status and distribution of elephants studied man elephant conflicts and analyzed the problems of managing elephants in the wild. He journeyed over thousands of miles of hazardous roads and walked through the north eastern forests of India leaning to read the language of the jungle. His acquaintance with wild elephants some of them man killers was sometimes from as close as a few feet. For those who have wondered where Jim Corbett's descendants are here is the answer.

Dhriti Kanta Lahiri Choudhury is the author of 'The Great Indian Elephant Book'. This book is in the best tradition of writing about animals a wildlife memoir peppered with anecdotes shot through with humour and irony perfectly combining story telling and scholarship. ...more

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Average rating: 4.24 · 25 ratings · 15 reviews · 8 distinct works

	A Trunk Full of Tales : Seventy Years with the Indian Elephant 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	জঙ্গলগাথা ও রসনাবিলাস 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Great Indian Elephant Book liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jangolgatha O Rasonabilas by Dhritikanta Lahiri Chowdhury, Sumeru Mukhopadhyay (Editor), Sarmistha Bose (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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