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{{Infobox book

| name = Banalata Sen
| image = Banalata Sen.jpg
| caption = 1952 cover designed by [[Satyajit Ray]].
| author = [[Jibanananda Das]]
| title_orig = বনলতা সেন
| translator = Various
| illustrator =
| cover_artist = [[Satyajit Ray]]
| country = India
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| series =
| subject = Love, nature, time, etc.
| genre = poetry
| publisher =
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| pages = 49 ([[Signet Press]] 1952 edition), 44 (Calcutta Writers Workshop, 2000. English translation edition)
| isbn = 9788175957329
| oclc = 49538244
| dewey =
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'''''Banalata Sen''''' ({{lang-bn|বনলতা সেন}}) is a collection of poems by [[Jibanananda Das]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.alokitobangladesh.com/online/details/14964|script-title=bn:জীবনানন্দ দাশের কবিতার সংখ্যা কত?|website=আলোকিত বাংলাদেশ|language=bn|access-date=2018-06-07}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Jibanananda Das|last=Salekeen|first=Seraj|publisher=Kathaprokash|year=2018|series=Jibani Granthamal [Biography Series]|location=Dhaka|pages=90|script-title=bn:জীবনানন্দ দাশ}}</ref> During Das's lifetime, it was published twice: first time in [[Poush]] 1349 [[Bengali calendar]] (December 1942 AD) with a cover by Sambhu Shaha including 12 poems, and second time in [[Srabon]] 1359 [[Bengali calendar]] (1952 AD) an enlarged version with a cover by [[Satyajit Ray]] including 30 poems. Das named the volume after the poem: "[[Banalata Sen]]", one of Das's finest poems, certainly his most popular.<ref name=":0" /> The enlarged edition published by Signet Press was awarded in 1953 at the Nikhil Banga Rabindra Sahitya Sammelan (All Bengal Rabindra Literature Convention).<ref name="Banglapedia">{{cite book |last=Kamal |first=Begum Aktar |year=2012 |chapter=Das, Jibanananda |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Das,_Jibanananda |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> The recurring themes in the poems of this volume are love, nature, time, temporariness of life and love, etc. Above all, a historical sense pervades everything. The names that frequent in many poems are Suchetana, Suranjana, Sudarshana and Syamali and these women are deemed above or beyond women in general. In these poems, the love Das talks about crosses the boundaries of time and place and sometimes seems impersonal too.

==References==
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