Mihir Sengupta
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 atricities of post-partition Wast Pakistan and won the Ananda Puroshkar literary prize. Sengupta died on 17 January 2022, at the age of 75.[3]
References
- ^ Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group document
- ^ Kafila essay
- ^ "Mihir Sengupta: ভাটিপুত্রের কথা ফুরোল". Ananda Bazar. 18 January 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
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