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'''Mihir Sengupta''' (1946 – 17 January 2022) was an Indian writer of [[Bengali people|Bengali]] literature. |
'''Mihir Sengupta''' (1946 – 17 January 2022) was an Indian writer of [[Bengali people|Bengali]] literature. |
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Mihir Sengupta (1946 – 17 January 2022) was an Indian writer of Bengali literature.
He was best known for his 2005 autobiography Bishaad Brikkho ('Tree of Sorrow').[1][2] It describes the atrocities of post-partition East Pakistan as seen by the author, who was uprooted from his native Barisal in present-day Bangladesh and ended up in Calcutta as a refugee. Bishaad Brikkho is regarded as an important literary document of the atrocities of post-partition West Pakistan and won the Ananda Puroshkar literary prize. Sengupta died in Kolkata of blood cancer on 17 January 2022, at the age of 75.[3]
References
- ^ Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group document
- ^ Kafila essay
- ^ "Mihir Sengupta: ভাটিপুত্রের কথা ফুরোল". Anandabazar Patrika. 18 January 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
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