Narayan Sanyal
Narayan Sanyal (bn: নারায়ণ সান্যাল) was a well-known & versatile writer of modern Bengali literature. He received several awards for literature including Rabindra Puraskar for Aporupa Ajanta (Bangla: অপরূপা অজন্তা) in 1969, Bankim Puraskar for Rupmonjori (Bangla: রূপমঞ্জরী) in 2000, and Narasingha Dutta Award. Many of his books were filmed and he won the Best Film Story Writer Award for Shotyokam (Bangla: সত্যকাম) by Bengal Film Journalists.
Sanyal wrote numerous books that dealt with many topics, such as children, science, art and architecture, travels, psychiatry, technology, refugee problems, history, biographical pieces, encyclopedia of animals, social novel and Devadasi-related. He also wrote a series of detective fiction called the Ka
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Shankar's real name is Mani Shankar Mukherjee. Sankar is a very popular writer in the Bengali language. He grew up in Howrah district of West Bengal, India.
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Shankar's father died while Shankar was still a teenager, as a result of which Shankar became a clerk to the last British barrister of the Calcutta High Court, Noel Frederick Barwell. The experience of working under Mr. Barwell provided the material for his first book Koto Ojanare (কত অজানারে), translated as The Great Unknown.
During 1962, Shankar conceived the idea of writing the novel Chowringhee on a rainy day at the waterlogged crossing of Central Avenue and Dalhousie - a busy business district in the heart of Kolkata.
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Carol Wallace
Carol Wallace, the great-great-granddaughter of Lew Wallace, is the author most recently of a new version of "Ben-Hur." It is the official tie-in of the new major film, releasing in August of 2016.
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"Leaving Van Gogh." Previous titles have included humor, parenting, and social history. In 2006 Wallace received a M.A. in art history from Columbia University. The research for her M.A. thesis provided the foundation for "Leaving van Gogh." A 1977 graduate of Princeton University, Wallace lives in New York. -
Syed Mustafa Siraj
Syed Mustafa Siraj (Bengali: সৈয়দ মুস্তাফা সিরাজ) is an eminent Bengali writer. In 1994, he received the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Aleek Manush (অলীক মানুষ). In 2005, his short story Ranirghater Brittanto (রানীরঘাটের বৃত্তান্ত) was made into the film "Faltu" by Anjan Das.
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He was born in a village named Khoshbaspur in the district of Murshidabad in 1930. In his early days, he enjoyed a bohemian life style. Once he joined a folk drama group 'Aalkaap' (আলকাপ) and travelled the districts of Murshidabad, Malda, Burdwan, Birbhum and also performed in Kolkata. In those days, he used to perform whole night and sleep in day time. He used to play flute. He was a teacher of folk dance and drama. But oneday he got tired of this life and felt -
Shibram Chakraborty
Shibram Chakraborty (Bangla: শিবরাম চক্রবর্তী) was a popular Bengali writer, humorist and revolutionary who is best known for his humorous stories. His best known short stories and novels are renowned for their unique use of pun, alliteration, play of words and ironic humor. He was a prolific author who also wrote poems, plays, non-fiction and novels for mature audiences in his long career.He worked as a volunteer in the Swadeshi movement and came under the affection of Chittaranjan Das [চিত্তরঞ্জন দাস]. During this time he became involved with the magazine Bijli [বিজলী] and Forward as a journalist. He later became the publisher of a magazine called Jugantar [যুগান্তর].
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Rabindranath Tagore
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."
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Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as nat -
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (Bengali: শরদিন্দু বন্দোপাধ্যায়; 30 March 1899 – 22 September 1970) was a well-known literary figure of Bengal. He was also actively involved with Bengali cinema as well as Bollywood. His most famous creation is the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi.
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He wrote different forms of prose: novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. However, his forte was short stories and novels. He wrote historical fiction like Kaler Mandira, GourMollar (initially named as Mouri Nodir Teere), Tumi Sandhyar Megh, Tungabhadrar Teere (all novels), Chuya-Chandan, Maru O Sangha (later made into a Hindi film named Trishangni) and stories of the unnatural with the recurring character Baroda. Besides, he wrote many songs and poems.
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Complete works of Sarat Chandra (শরৎ রচনাবলী) is now available in this third party website:
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (also spelt Saratchandra) (Bengali: শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) was a legendary Bengali novelist from India. He was one of the most popular Bengali novelists of the early 20th century.
His childhood and youth were spent in dire poverty as his father, Motilal Chattopadhyay, was an idler and dreamer and gave little security to his five children. Saratchandra received very little formal education but inherited something valuable from his father—his imagination and love of literature.
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Manik Bandopadhyay
Manik Bandopadhyay (Bengali: মানিক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bengali novelist and is considered one of the leading lights of modern Bangla fiction. During a short lifespan of forty-eight years, plagued simultaneously by illness and financial crisis, he produced 36 novels and 177 short-stories. His important works include Padma Nadir Majhi (The Boatman on The River Padma, 1936) and Putul Nacher Itikatha (The Puppet's Tale, 1936), Shahartali (The Suburbia, 1941) and Chatushkone (The Quadrilateral, 1948).
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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Bengali: বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) ('Chattopadhyay' in the original Bengali; 'Chatterjee' as spelt by the British) was a Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalist, most famous as the author of Vande Mataram or Bande Mataram, that inspired the freedom fighters of India, and was later declared the National Song of India.
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Complete works of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (বঙ্কিম রচনাবলী) is now available in this third party website (in Bengali):
https://bankim-rachanabali.nltr.org/
Chatterjee is considered as a key figure in literary renaissance of Bengal as well as India. Some of his writings, including novels, essays and commentaries, were a breakaway from traditional verse-oriented Indian writings, and provi -
Samaresh Majumdar
Samaresh Majumdar (Bangla: সমরেশ মজুমদার) was a well-known Bengali writer. He spent his childhood years in the tea gardens of Duars, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. He was a student of the Jalpaiguri Zilla School, Jalpaiguri. He completed his bachelors in Bengali from Scottish Church College, Kolkata. His first story appeared in "Desh" (a Bengali magazine) in 1967. "Dour" (Run) was his first novel, which was published in "Desh" in 1976.
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Author of novels, short stories and travelogues, Samaresh received the Indian government's coveted Sahitya Akademi award for the second book of the Animesh series, Kalbela.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
This author has secondary bangla profile-বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bangali author and one of the leading writers of modern Bangla literature. His best known work is the autobiographical novel, Pather Panchali: Song of the Road which was later adapted (along with Aparajito, the sequel) into the Apu Trilogy films, directed by Satyajit Ray.
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Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (Bengali: সত্যজিৎ রায়) was an Indian filmmaker and author of Bengali fiction and regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of world cinema. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and watching Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist 1948 film, Bicycle Thieves.
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Kaushik Majumdar
জন্ম ১০ এপ্রিল, ১৯৮১, কলকাতা। স্নাতক, স্নাতকোত্তর এবং পি. এইচ. ডি. তে সেরা ছাত্রের স্বর্ণপদক প্রাপ্ত। নতুন প্রজাতির ব্যাকটেরিয়া Bacillus sp. KM5 এর আবিষ্কারক। বর্তমানে ধান্য গবেষণা কেন্দ্র, চুঁচুড়ায় বৈজ্ঞানিক পদে কর্মরত এবং হাবড়া মৃত্তিকা পরীক্ষাগারের ভারপ্রাপ্ত আধিকারিক।
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জার্মানী থেকে প্রকাশিত হয়েছে তাঁর লেখা গবেষণাগ্রন্থ Discovering Friendly Bacteria: A Quest (২০১২)। তাঁর কমিকস ইতিবৃত্ত (২০১৫), হোমসনামা' (২০১৮),মগজাস্ত্র (২০১৮), জেমস বন্ড জমজমাট (২০১৯), তোপসের নোটবুক (২০১৯), কুড়িয়ে বাড়িয়ে (২০১৯),নোলা (২০২০), সূর্যতামসী (২০২০), আঁধার আখ্যান (২০২০) ও নীবারসপ্তক (২০২১) এই সব দিনরাত্রি (২০২২), ধন্য কলকেতা সহর (২০২২), আবার আঁধার (২০২২), অগ্নিনিরয় (২০২২), হারানো দিনের গল্প (২০২৪), সিংহদমন (২০২৪), ডিটেকটিভ তারিণীচরণ (২০২৪), আরও একটি প্রবন্ধ সংকল -
Sakyajit Bhattacharya
শাক্যজিৎ ভট্টাচার্যের জন্ম ১৯৮২ সালে। পেশায় রাশিবিজ্ঞানী। বিশ্বসাহিত্যের নিষ্ণাত পাঠক শাক্যজিৎ বিচিত্র বিষয়ে নিরীক্ষামূলক গল্প, উপন্যাস লিখছেন সাম্প্রতিক সময়ে।
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Avik Sarkar
অভীক সরকারের জন্ম পয়লা জুন, উনিশশো উনআশি সালে। বেড়ে ওঠা প্রাচীন শহর হাওড়ার অলিগলিতে। বাবা ক্ষুদ্র ব্যবসায়ী ছিলেন, মা স্কুল শিক্ষিকা। রয়েছে স্নাতক ও স্নাতকোত্তর ডিগ্রি। পেশায় সেলসম্যান, কর্মসূত্রে ঘুরেছেন পূর্ব-ভারতের প্রায় সব শহর ও গ্রাম। জীবনের বিভিন্ন পর্যায়ে বাসা বেঁধেছেন হায়দ্রাবাদ, পাটনা, মুম্বাই ইত্যাদি বিভিন্ন শহরে। শখের বই ব্যবসায়ী ও প্রকাশক। লেখালেখির শুরু আন্তর্জালে ও বিভিন্ন ব্লগে। প্রকাশিত বইগুলো হল মার্কেট ভিজিট, তিতিরপাখি ও প্রিন্সেস (সহলেখক অনুষ্টুপ শেঠ), এবং ইনকুইজিশন, খোঁড়া ভৈরবীর মাঠ, চক্রসম্বরের পুঁথি, ইত্যাদি। বিবাহিত। কন্যা সন্তানের পিতা। ভালোবাসেন ইলিশ, ইস্টবেঙ্গল, ইয়ারবন্ধু এবং ইতিহাস।
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Prafulla Roy
Prafulla Roy was a Bengali author, lived in West Bengal, India. He received Bankim Puraskar and Sahitya Akademi Award for his literary contribution in Bengali.
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Supratim Sarkar
সুপ্রতিম সরকারের জন্ম কলকাতায়, ৩০ মে ১৯৭১। আশৈশব কৃতী ছাত্র। ছাত্রজীবন কেটেছে সেন্ট লরেন্স হাই স্কুলে। প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ থেকে অর্থনীতিতে প্রথম শ্রেণির স্নাতক। আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকায় স্বল্প দিনের সাংবাদিকতার পর ১৯৯৭ সালে যোগ দেন ইন্ডিয়ান পুলিশ সার্ভিসে। কর্মজীবনে রাজ্যের বিভিন্ন জেলায় এবং কলকাতায় নানা গুরুত্বপূর্ণ প্রশাসনিক দায়িত্ব সামলেছেন। বর্তমানে কলকাতা পুলিশে অতিরিক্ত কমিশনার পদে কর্মরত। কর্মক্ষেত্রে প্রশংসনীয় দক্ষতার জন্য ২০১৫-য় সম্মানিত হয়েছেন ভারতের রাষ্ট্রপতি প্রদত্ত ‘ইন্ডিয়ান পুলিশ মেডেল’-এ, ২০১৭-য় ভূষিত হয়েছেন পশ্চিমবঙ্গের মুখ্যমন্ত্রী প্রদত্ত বিশেষ সম্মানপদকে।পেশায় আই পি এস অফিসার, নেশায় আপাদমস্তক ক্রিকেটানুরাগী। লেখকের প্রথম প্রকাশিত বই ‘গোয়েন্দাপীঠ লালবাজার’।
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Sreepantha
শ্রীপান্থের জন্ম ১৯৩২ সালে, ময়মনসিংহের গৌরীপুরে | লেখাপড়া ময়মনসিংহ এবং কলকাতায় | শ্রীপান্থ তরুণ বয়স থেকেই পেশায় সাংবাদিক | আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকার সম্পাদকীয় বিভাগের সঙ্গে যুক্ত | সাংবাদিকতার পাশাপাশি দীর্ঘদিন ধরেই গবেষণামূলক রচনাদি লিখে যাচ্ছেন তিনি | তাঁর চর্চার বিষয় সামাজিক ইতিহাস | বিশেষত কলকাতার সমাজ ও সংকৃতি | তিনি সতীদাহ,দেবদাসী,ঠগী,হারেম-ইত্যাদি বিষয় নিয়ে যেমন লিখেছেন, তেমনিই কলকাতার পটভূমিতে লিখেছেন একাধিক রচনা | তার মধ্যে উল্লেখযোগ্য: আজব নগরী, শ্রীপান্থেরকলকতা, যখন ছাপাখানা এল, এলোকেশী মোহন্ত সম্বাদ, কেয়াবাৎ মেয়ে, মেটিয়াবুরুজের নবাব, দায় ইত্যাদি | বটতলা তাঁর সর্বশেষ বই | কলকাতার শিল্পী সংস্কৃতি বিষয়ে তাঁর বেশি কিছু প্রবন্ধ ইংরেজিতেও প্রকাশিত হয়েছে | বাংলা মুলুকে প্রথম ধাতব হরফে ছাপা বই হালেদের 'আ গ্রামার অব দ্য বেঙ্গল
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Kaushik Roy
Kaushik Roy is Reader in History at Jadavpur University, India and Global Fellow of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway. He is the author of many articles and books, including Military Manpower, Armies and Warfare in South Asia (2013), The Army in British India (2012) and The Oxford Companion to Modern Warfare in India (2009). He is also the co-author of Armed Forces and Insurgents in Modern Asia (2016; with Sourish Saha) and the co-editor, along with Scott Gates, of War and State-Building in Afghanistan (2015).
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Indranil Sanyal
ইন্দ্রনীল সান্যালের জন্ম হাওড়ার বালিতে, ১৯৬৬ সালে। নীলরতন সরকার মেডিকেল কলেজ থেকে এম বি বি এস। প্যাথলজিতে এম ডি, পিজি হাসপাতাল থেকে।সরকারি চাকরির সূত্রে কাজ করেছেন সুন্দরবনের প্রত্যন্ত প্রাথমিক স্বাস্থ্যকেন্দ্র থেকে মহাকরণের ডিসপেনসারিতে, লালবাজার সেন্ট্রাল লকআপ থেকে গঙ্গাসাগর মেলার হেল্থ ক্যাম্পে।বর্তমানে পূর্ব মেদিনীপুর জেলা হাসপাতালের সঙ্গে যুক্ত।প্রথম প্রকাশিত গল্প ২০০৪ সালে ‘উনিশকুড়ি’ পত্রিকায়।শখ: বই পড়া, ফেসবুকে ফার্মভিল এবং হ্যাপি অ্যাকোয়ারিয়াম খেলা, সুদোকু সমাধান।
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Tarapada Roy
Tarapada Ray (Bengali: তারাপদ রায়) was a Bengali writer of poems, short stories, and essays. He is especially known for his satirical sense of humour. He was born on November 17, 1936 in Tangail, now in Bangladesh. He lived in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal till his death on August 25, 2007.
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He had his schooling in Bangladesh where he passed his matriculation from Bindubasini High English School. In 1951, he came to Calcutta to attend college. He studied Economics in Central Calcutta College (presently Maulana Azad College). For a time he taught in a school in Habra in North 24Parganas.
Apart from numerous short stories and essays (mostly satirical), he wrote many poems as well. His first collection of poems, "Tomar Pratima" was -
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Abadhut
অবধূত (১৯১০ - ১৩ এপ্রিল, ১৯৭৮) বা কালিকানন্দ অবধূত ছিলেন একজন বিশিষ্ট ভারতীয় বাঙালি ঔপন্যাসিক ও তন্ত্রসাধক। তাঁর প্রকৃতনাম দুলালচন্দ্র মুখোপাধ্যায়। জন্ম কলকাতার ভবানীপুরে। পুত্র অমল মুখোপাধ্যায়ের জন্মের পর প্রথমা স্ত্রীর মৃত্যু হলে উজ্জয়িনীর মহাকাল মন্দিরে সন্ন্যাস (অবধূত) গ্রহণ করেন। সন্ন্যাসজীবনে তাঁর নাম হয় কালিকানন্দ অবধূত। সন্ন্যাসজীবনে তাঁর ভৈরবী স্ত্রীও ছিল। হুগলি জেলার চুঁচুড়ায় স্বপ্রতিষ্ঠিত রুদ্রচণ্ডী মঠে তাঁর মৃত্যু হয়।
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অবধূত ছদ্মনামে তিনি একাধিক গ্রন্থ রচনা করেছিলেন। ১৯৫৪ সালে মরুতীর্থ হিংলাজ নামক উপন্যাস রচনা করে খ্যাতি অর্জন করেন। এই উপন্যাসটি অবলম্বনে একটি জনপ্রিয় চলচ্চিত্রও নির্মিত হয়, যার কেন্দ্রীয় চরিত্রে অভিনয় করেন বিকাশ রায় ও উত্তমকুমার। তাঁর অপর বিখ্যাত গ্রন্থ উদ্ধারণপুরের ঘাট (১৯৬০)। -
Premendra Mitra
Premendra Mitra (Bangla: প্রেমেন্দ্র মিত্র) was a renowned Bengali poet, novelist, short story writer and film director. He was also an author of Bengali science fiction and thrillers.
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His short stories were well-structured and innovative, and encompassed the diverse to the divergent in urban Indian society. The themes of poverty, degradation, caste, the intermittent conflict between religion and rationality and themes of the rural-urban divide are a thematically occurring refrain in much of his work. He experimented with the stylistic nuances of Bengali prose and tried to offer alternative linguistic parameters to the high-class elite prosaic Bengali language. It was basically an effort to make the Bengali literature free from softness, exc -
Jyotirindra Nandi
Jyotirindranath Nandi (he used to sign as Jyotirindra Nandi) (1912–1982) was a Bengali writer. He created a niche for himself in Bengali literature.
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Jyotirindranath was better known for his short stories. Shalik ki Charai is a notable collection of his short stories. His first novel was Suryamukhi. His most famous novel was Baro Ghar Ek Uthan. Amongst his other books were Mirar Dupur, Premer Cheye Baro and Ei Tar Puraskar. -
Gajendrakumar Mitra
Gajendra Kumar Mitra was born on 11 November 1908. He was a versatile writer. He wrote many novels, short stories, plays, essays and poems. Mitra also translated a few English novels into Bengali, such as Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities . He used to write with his left hand. His genuine love and concern for Bengali literature inspired him to co-found the famous Mitra and Ghosh Publishers. Mitra was childless. He died on 16 October 1994 in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
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Mr Mitra along with his friend Sumathanath Ghosh established Mitra & Ghosh Publishers on 9 March 1934.
Novels:
Kanta Prem
Pānchajanya
Rai Jāgo Rai Jāgo
Kolkatar Kāchei (Translated as A Stone's Throw from Kolkata)
Paush Phāguner Pālā
Upakanthe
Bahnibanyā
Rātrir Tapashyā
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Atin Bandyopadhyay
Atin Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: অতীন বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; anglicised spelling of surname: Banerjee) is a noted writer of Bengali literature. He was born in 1934 in Rainadi, Dhaka.
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He spent his childhood in a joint family set-up in the then East Bengal of undivided India and studied in Sonar Gaon Panam School. After the Partition, migrated to India. He earned his undergraduate degree in commerce in 1956 and subsequently earned a teacher's training degree, all from the University of Calcutta. He took various jobs as a sailor, truck-cleaner, primary school teacher. Also became headmaster of a senior basic school. Settled permanently in Kolkata in 1963. Here also he took on various jobs like factory manager, publication advisor and lastly journalist.
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