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Place of Birth: Alipore, West Bengal, India
About Dinesh Das
- 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 age, he became involved in secret revolutionary Indian independence movement.
- He also became involved in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Salt Satygraha 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:
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