# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/balai-chand-mukhopadhyay
# Generated: 2026-08-16T07:36:59.396Z

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name: "Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay"
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description: "Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay was an Indian Bengali-language writer, physician, and playwright, best known by his pen name Banaphul,. His oeuvre spanned novels, poetry, plays, essays and over 400 short stories, the genre for which he is best remembered. For his contribution to literature, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1975, India's third-highest civilian honor."
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birthDate: "1899-07-19"
deathDate: "1979-02-09"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump