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Sukanta Bhattacharya

Sukanta Bhattacharya (Bengali: সুকান্ত ভট্টাচার্য) (August 15, 1926 – May 13, 1947) was one of the most honored poets of Bangla literature. He was called 'Young Nazrul' and 'Kishore Bidrohi Kobi'.

Life

Sukanta was born at his uncle's house in Kolkata. His ancestral home in the village Unshiya in Kotalipara, Gopalganj, Bengal (now part of Bangladesh). His father, Nibaran Bhattacharya, was in the book selling business in Kolkata.

He died of tuberculosis at Jadavpur (Kolkata) at a very young age of 21. He was a communist and was a worker of the party.

Works

Sukanta's poetry was published in magazines while he was alive, and except for chhArpatra his books were all published posthumously:

1. chhARpatra ছাড়পত্র (Certificate, 1947)
2. ghum nei ঘুম নেই (Sleepless, 1954)
3. pUrbAbhAs পূর্বাভাস (Premonition, 1950)
4. abhiJAn অভিযান (Expedition, 1953, a play)
5. miThe-kaRA মিঠে-কড়া (Sweet and sour 1951)

His work is deeply marked and influenced by his communist experience. One of his shorter poems compares the moon with a burnt roti, a prosaicness born of hunger:

Letters

• Patra Guchha

Works

• sukAnta samagra (sukAnta complete) সুকান্ত সমগ্র, ed. subhASh mukhopAdhyAy, sAraswat library kolkAta, 1967. This includes all the printed texts, some lesser known writings, his plays and stories, and also a selection of lettrs.

Stories:

• Khudha
• Durboddho
• Vodrolok
• Darodi Kishorer Kishor SwaPNO

Essays:

• Chhondo o Abritti

References

• Golpo Songroho (Collected Stories), the national text book of B.A. (pass and subsidiary) course of Bangladesh, published by University of Dhaka in 1979 (reprint in 1986).

• Bangla Sahitya (Bengali Literature), the national text book of intermediate (college) level of Bangladesh published in 1996 by all educational boards.

External links

• Banglapedia: Bhattacharya, Sukanta
• Works of Sukanta Bhattacharya