Saroj Dutta

Poet

Birthday March 14, 1914

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Birthplace Bangladesh

DEATH DATE Aug 5, 1971 (57)

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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.