About
Twentieth-century Bangladeshi-Indian poet, intellectual, and Communist activist. He edited the Bengali newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika and was involved in the violent Naxalite-Maoist movement.
Before fame
He graduated from the University of Calcutta in 1938.
Trivia
In 1964, he became a member of the Marxist Communist Party of India.
Family life
He was born in East Bengal to a family of landowners.
Associated with
He and Manabendra Nath Roy both became Indian Communist revolutionaries.
