| Dinesh Das | |
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| Born | (1913-09-16)16 September 1913 Chetla, Alipore, Calcutta, Bengal, British Indian Empire |
| Died | 13 March 1985(1985-03-13) (aged 71) Gopalnagar, Bangaon subdivision, North 24 Parganas district, India |
Dinesh Das (16 September 1913 – 13 March 1985) was a Bengali poet.
He was born in his maternal home at Chetla in Alipore, a locality on the bank of Adi Ganga creek. When he was in Class IX, at around 15 years old, he became involved in secret revolutionary Indian independence movement. He also became involved in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Salt Satyagraha movement which hampered his formal education. However, he passed Matriculation Examination in 1930, and I.A. in 1932 from the South Suburban College (now Asutosh College). In 1933, he was admitted to B.A. in Scottish Church College. In 1934, first poem "Sraboney" was published in Desh. However, he could not complete his B.A. due to his revolutionary and literary activities. In 1935, he took a job at Khayerbari Tea Estate and moved to Kurseong. There he became disillusioned with Gandhism and on return to Calcutta next year, he became inspired by communism and read writings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Ralph Fox. In 1937, he created a stir with his poem Kaste (Sickle). He immortalized Kolkata's Clive Street in one of his poems:
Here, in a hundred snake-like veins,
Streams of people come and go.
Through these shrunken veins the blood,
Of the country must flow.
O Mighty City's beating heart,
O Clive Street of Bengal,
A thousand dumb veins freeze to make,
The cornerstone of your high hall.
Works
- Kabita (Poems)
- Bhukhmichhil (Hunger Procession)
- Kancher Manush (Glass Humans)
- Ram gechhe Banabase (Ram is in Forest Exile)
- Kaste (Scythe; also, part of the symbol of the Communist Party): an allegory on modern industrial life
References
- "Kolkata on Wheels Magazine : Drive outs around Kolkata". Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
- Alok, Bardhan (2020). Bangla Shikshak (For the class XII). Chhaya Prakashani.
- "কবি দীনেশ দাস". www.bhorerkagoj.com. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
- "Kaaste-Kobi Dinesh Das Samparke Alpo Kotha -- Bengali essay by Jyotirmoy Das - Parabaas Issue 53, কাস্তে-কবি দিনেশ দাস সম্পর্কে অল্প কথা, জ্যোতির্ময় দাশ, পরবাস-৫৩". parabaas.com. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
- "দিনেশ দাস (Dinesh Das): 'কাস্তে'র কবি". Retrieved 21 June 2022.
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