Asok Chattopadhyay

Asok Chattopadhyay is a renowned poet from Kolkata. A post-graduate and PhD from Calcutta University, Chattopadhyay has been a researcher on the social history of nineteenth-century Bengal. Some of his notable works are: "Unish Sataker Samajik Andolan", "Kangal Harinath and Grambartaprokashika", "Samajik Andolon O Buddhijibi", "Saroj Dutta Samar Sen E Brotoyatrary", "Hintuvawadi Shyamaprosad Prosange", etc. He has been editing "Sanskritik Sama Samay", a Bengali social and literary quarterly for over three decades.

Birendra Chattopadhyay: A poet in a centenary year

Sun, Sep 20 2020 by Asok Chattopadhyay

September 2nd is gone with the wind and a birth centenary year of a renowned Bengali poet has passed by in the corona-ruled lockdown times. A people’s poet has unfortunately been seen to be a prisoner in Facebook Live programmes and so on. Renowned poets and artists have been seen on Facebook screens reading poetries … Read more