Born in
Calcutta, Guha studied at
St. Xavier's College of the
University of Calcutta. He spent his early years in various districts of
Eastern Bengal (now
Bangladesh). Those days in
Rangpur,
Jaipurhat and
Barisal are depicted in his
Rivu series, some books from which are dedicated to friends from his youth. Guha created
Rijuda, an imaginary character who, with his sidekick Rudra, explores jungles mainly in
Eastern India. He won the
Ananda Puraskar in 1976 and was a chartered accountant by profession. Apart from writing, Guha was trained to sing by
Rabindra Sangeet at the Tagore school of music,
Dakshinee. He learned
Hindustani classical music and old-style
Tappa songs from
Ramkumar Chattopadhyay and
Chandidas Mal. He was also a painter and toward the end of his life, when his eyesight began to fail and he dictated his writings, he fell back on this art. ==Bibliography==