Sukanta Bhattacharya was a Bengali poet and revolutionary. He was known as "Young Nazrul" and "Kishore Bidrohi Kobi", for his rebellious stance and opposition against the British Raj, Empire of Japan, other Axis powers, Second World War, and the social elites through the work of poetry.
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Sukanta Bhattacharya (middle, slightly right) sitting on Nibaran Chandra's lap
Bhattacharya as a child (left)
Bhattacharya as a teenager.
Invasion of Poland was one of the events that transitioned Bhattacharya into liberative poems.
Bhattacharya saw the bombings of major cities like Calcutta and Chittagong
Bhattacharya warned people about the wars initiated by the Imperial Japanese Army in WW2.
Kishore Bahini in 2017, with a poster of Sukanta BhattacharyaWriters born in the 1920s 6
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Sukanta Bhattacharya was a Bengali poet and revolutionary. He was known as "Young Nazrul" and "Kishore Bidrohi Kobi", for his rebellious stance and opposition against the British Raj, Empire of Japan, other Axis powers, Second World War, and the social elites through the work of poetry. While his poetry was not much studied during his career, he became one of the most popular poets of the 20th century and Bengali literature after his death, primarily because all of his poetry collection books were published after his death. These published books founded way for inspiration of social change in the community with their liberation themes. He became an official member of the Communist Party of India, as a Marxist poet, in 1944. He was known as a "Teen poet" for his works as a teen. His writing career spanned about 6 years. His main work was poetry, but he also wrote songs, stories, essays and plays.
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