Born on the 26th of August, 1953 Karmendu Shishir teaches Hindi at B. D. Evening College (Magadh University), Patna. From his student days, he actively participated in peasant-worker leftwing politics. He is associated with the Pragatishīl Lekhak Sangh (Progressive Writers Association) as well as a trustee of “Philhāl”, Patna (journal and trust). His discovery and scholarly editions of almost forgotten works of the thinker and activist Rādhāmohan Gokul (1865-1935), old files of Hindi journal Sārsudhānidhi of 19th century and Matvālā etc. (see rare literary magazines section of the Shodhāgār) has given a new depth to the debate on characterization of the history of Hindi Navjāgaraṇ between 1875 and 1940.
(1983) Kocān kī dhār (2003) Bahut lambī rāh
(1989) Kitne Din Apne (1996) Bacī Rahegī Zindagī
(2000) Navjāgaraṇ aur Saṃskṛti (2007) Hindī Navjāgaraṇ aur Jātīya Gadya Paramparā (1998) Nirālā aur Rām kī Shakti-Pūjā (2003) Rādhāmohan Gokul aur Hindī Navjāgaraṇ
(2007)1857 kī Rājkrānti: Vicār aur Viśleṣaṇ
(1983/1985) Bhojpurī Horī Gīt [in two parts] (1996) Vasant Gīt (2002) Samay kī āvāz (2002) [selected poems from ‘Pahal’] (2004) Samay kā sac (2004) [selected essays from ‘Pahal’] (2003) Koṭhār se bīj (2003) [collection of prose works by Somdatt]
(2007): Matvālā (1923-1930) Three Vols. (2007): Sārsudhānidhi [in two parts] (2007): Rādhāmohan Gokul (2007): Rādhācaraṇ Gosvāmī (revised and enlarged edition of the first edition published in 1990) (2007): Satyabhakt, sāmyavād aur sāmyavādī (2009): Radhamohan Gokul Samagra (2010): Aarcharya Shivpujan Sahay (2010): Satyabhakt aur Samyvadi Party
(1991): Hamārī Bhāṣā (1991) (1999): Sāmyavādī (1999) : Savāl sirph Bhāṣā kī Nahīṁ hai (1998): Bhojpurī caitā
