Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Sakti chattopadhya a Bohemian poet.

Sakti chattopadhya was born on 25th November 1933 in Baharu village presently South 24 porganas  west Bengal. His father's name is Bamanath chattopadhya and mother Kamala Devi .He lost his father only at the age of four and was brought up by the maternal grand father.He came to Calcutta Bag bazaar in 1948 and got admitted in Maharaja Kashempur  polytechnic school in class viii.He was introduced to Marxism by a 


teacher.In1949 he established progoti library and started a hand writing magazine Progoti and the same was changed into printed one.
The name of which was changed to Bahnisikha .
He passed matriculation examination in 1951and  got admitted in city college to study commerce. It was the same year he got the membership of The communist party of India , CPI.In 1953 he passed Intermideate commerce examination but gave up commerce and got admitted in the presidency college with honours in Bengali literature but did not appear at the examinaion . He started writing for Kirtibash and other magazines.He terminated in 1958 his relationship with CPI.He worked at Saxby  Pharma Ltd. and left it and later taught at Bhawanipur tutorial home.
He joined Hind Motors but could not continue for a long time.
He was one of the founder members of hungry generation movement which started one page bulletin in November 1961.
However he left the movement in 1963.In1983 he received sahitya academic award  for his collection "jete pari kintu kano jabo".
He died on 23rd March 1995.

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