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{{Short description|Indian Bengali poet, writer and painter (1926–2018)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Manindra Gupta
| alt =
| birth_date = {{Birth date |1926|09|24}}
| birth_place = [[Goila]], [[Backergunge District]], [[British Raj |British India]] (present day in [[Bangladesh]])
| death_date = {{Date of death and age|2018|01|31|1926|09|24}}
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| language = [[Bengali Language|Bengali]]
| education =
| period =
| awards = [[Rabindra Puraskar]] (2010)<br/> [[Sahitya Academy Award]] (2011)
| spouse = Chiru Chowdhury<br>
Debarati Mitra
| website =
| occupation = novelist
}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2024}}

'''Manindra Gupta''' ({{langx|bn|মনীন্দ্র গুপ্ত}}; 24 September 1926 – 31 January 2018)<ref name="parabaas">{{cite web |title=Mana-r Duniya o Ogadh Birah |url=https://www.parabaas.com/PB83/LEKHA/pRajdip83.shtml |access-date=8 December 2023}}</ref> was an Indian Bengali poet, essayist, novelist and painter. He received the [[Rabindra Puraskar]] from the [[Government of West Bengal]] in 2010 and the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 2011 for his poetry collection ''Bane Aaj Concerto''.<ref name="SAA">{{cite press release |title=Poets Dominate Sahitya Akademi Awards 2011 |publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]] |date=21 December 2011 |url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award-2011.pdf |access-date=21 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508031321/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award-2011.pdf |archive-date=8 May 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=AKADEMI AWARDS (1955-2024)|url=https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/awards/akademi%20samman_suchi.jsp#BENGALI|access-date=2025-06-19|work=Sahitya Akademi}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Manindra Gupta was born as Manindranath Dasgupta, in Gaila village , [[Barisal District]] (now in [[Bangladesh]]), in undivided [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]] during [[British Raj|British India]]. He lost his mother at ten months old. After his paternal grandparents' deaths in 1933, he was raised in [[Silchar]], [[Barak Valley]], [[Assam]] at his maternal uncle's home. He completed school education in 1941 before moving to [[Kolkata]]. He joined the [[British Indian Army]] in 1943, received engineering training, and was posted at [[Lahore Cantonment]] until his service ended in 1946. He graduated from the [[University of Calcutta]] in 1956, then worked in the West Bengal Government's Industries Department until retiring in 1984.<ref name="scribd">{{cite web |title=Manindra Gupta |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/355413591/Manindra-Gupta |access-date=8 December 2023}}</ref>

His father, Nagendranath Dasgupta, was a highly influential Ayurveda physician from Gaila during his time. After his mother’s death, Manindra Gupta was raised by his stepmother, Shantilata Dasgupta. He also had a step-brother, Shailendranath Dasgupta.

== Literary career ==

His autobiographical trilogy ''Akshay Malberi'' (1981–2004), featuring his own illustrations, was critically acclaimed for its profound exploration of memory and identity.<ref name="roar">{{cite web |title=Review: Akshay Malberi |url=https://archive.roar.media/bangla/main/book-movie/review-of-akshay-malberi |access-date=8 December 2023 |publisher=Roar Media |language=Bangla}}</ref> His 1991 essay collection ''Chander Opith'' (The Far Side of the Moon) created significant literary impact.<ref name="scribd"/>

According to his Sahitya Akademi profile, Gupta's work is characterized by "a unique blend of visual artistry and poetic imagination" that creates "multilayered textual landscapes."<ref name="akademi">{{cite web |title=Manindra Gupta |url=https://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/library/meettheauthor/manindra_gupta.pdf |publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]] |access-date=8 December 2023}}</ref>

=== Works ===

* ''Nuri Bandor'' (2015, ISBN 978-93-8073-241-1)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Arunava Sinha translates Manindra Gupta’s novella 'Nuri Bandor'|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/lifestyle/arunava-sinha-translates-manindra-guptas-novella-nuri-bandor/cid/1865921|access-date=2025-06-19|date=2022-05-20|publisher=[[Telegraph India]]}}</ref>
* ''Akshay Malberi'' (3 volumes: 1981, 1998, 2004)<ref name="roar"/>
* ''Rong Kankar Ramkinkar'' (2014)<ref name="akademi"/>

== Awards and honours ==
* [[Bishnu Dey]] Memorial Award (2005)
* [[Rabindra Puraskar]] (2010) for ''Tung Tang Shabdo Nishshabdo''<ref name="SAA"/>
* [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] (2011) for ''Bane Aaj Concerto''<ref name="SAA"/>

== Personal life and death ==
Gupta married poet Debarati Mitra in 1975 after an earlier unsuccessful marriage with district Magistrate Chiru Chowdhury. He died in Kolkata on 31 January 2018 due to Pneumonia.<ref name="parabaas"/>

== References ==
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