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{{short description|Bengali writer (1916–1993)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Nalini Das
| image =
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1916|08|05}}<ref name="kolkatarkorcha">{{cite news |title=মেজ সম্পাদক |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/supplementary/kolkatakorcha/kolkatar-korcha-1.446490 |access-date=5 March 2019 |agency=Ananda Bazar Patrika |publisher=ABP |date=2016-10-01}}</ref>
| birth_place =[[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1993|03|26|1916|08|05}} <ref name="kolkatarkorcha"/>
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| other_names =
| occupation = Educationist, writer, editor
| years_active =
| known_for = Notable Bengali writer of mid 20th century
| notable_works = [[Goyenda Gondalu]], Editor of [[Sandesh (magazine)|Sandesh]] Children's magazine
}}

'''Nalini Das''' ( 5 August 1916 – 26 March 1993) was a Bengali educationist, writer and editor. She was one of the editors of the Bengali children's magazine [[Sandesh (magazine)|''Sandesh'']].

==Early life==
Nalini Das was born to Arunnath Chakraborty and Punyalata (Ray Chowdhury). Her father was a deputy magistrate posted in Bihar, and her mother was the daughter of Bengali writer, technologist and entrepreneur [[Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury]].<ref name="kolkatarkorcha"/><ref name="luq"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ray |first1=Satyajit |title=Jakhon Chhoto Chhilam |year=1983 |publisher=Ānanda |isbn=81-7066-880-8}}</ref> Bengali writer [[Sukumar Ray]] was her maternal uncle, and Oscar-winning filmmaker [[Satyajit Ray]] her cousin.<ref name="shaat">{{cite book |last1=Das |first1=Nalini |title=Shaat Rajar Dhon Ek Manik |publisher=New Script |location=Calcutta |edition=2nd (January 2005)}}</ref> She completed her matriculation from the [[Brahmo Balika Shikshalaya]] and IA from [[St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School]] in Calcutta.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alumni |url=http://www.stjohndiocesan.in/Alumni.html |website=St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School |access-date=12 March 2019 |archive-date=3 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303115355/http://www.stjohndiocesan.in/Alumni.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

She studied philosophy at [[Scottish Church College, Calcutta]].<ref>''Some Alumni of Scottish Church College'' in ''175th Year Commemoration Volume''. Scottish Church College, April 2008, p. 590.</ref> She studied for the master's degree in philosophy at the [[University of Calcutta]].{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} She was a brilliant scholar and came first class first in both B.A. and M.A. examinations. In B.A. she scored highest marks among arts examinees in all subjects.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

==Professional career==
Das was a member of the faculty of the Department of Philosophy in the [[Victoria Institution (College)|Victoria Institution]] immediately after her education. Later on she joined the Educational Service of the Bengal Government. In 1945, she was sent to [[England]] on a government scholarship for learning about school teachers' training. On return, she joined the newly established David Hare Training College. When a separate teachers' training college for women, the Institute of Education for Women, was set up, she became a senior member of its faculty. Later she became the principal of that Institute.

Later she was the principal (1968–1974) of [[Bethune College]].<ref name='bethunep'>{{cite web |title=Department of Philosophy |url=http://www.bethunecollege.ac.in/departments/PhilosophyDepartment.htm |website=Bethune College |access-date=12 March 2019 |archive-date=5 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405065351/http://www.bethunecollege.ac.in/departments/PhilosophyDepartment.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> An award honouring her is given for best all-round performance in the college.<ref>{{cite web |title=Department of Chemistry |url=http://www.bethunecollege.ac.in/departments/ChemistryDepartment.htm |website=Bethune College |access-date=12 March 2019 |archive-date=25 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825230358/http://www.bethunecollege.ac.in/departments/chemistryDepartment.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Writer and editor==

Along with her elder sister, Kalyani Karlekar, in the 1930s and 1940s she edited a Bengali a women's magazine ''Meyeder Katha''.<ref name="luq" />

Das created the first schoolgirl female detectives of [[Bengali literature]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ghatak |first1=Anchita |title=Detective Mitin Mashi, not middle-class tales, might be Suchitra Bhattacharya's lasting legacy |url=https://scroll.in/article/727730/detective-mitin-mashi-not-middle-class-tales-might-be-suchitra-bhattacharyas-lasting-legacy |access-date=8 March 2019 |agency=Scroll |date=2015-05-16}}</ref> The ''Goenda Gondalu'' (translated into English as the ''Lu Quartet'' by Swapna Dutta),<ref name="luq">{{cite book |last1=Das |first1=Nalini |title=The Lu quartet : super sleuths and other stories |date=February 2013 |publisher=Hachette India |isbn=978-93-5009-322-1}}</ref> are four young schoolgirls who solve mysteries.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sen |first1=Jash |title=Go goyenda! A guide to the Bengali detectives who made it to the screen and the ones who need to |url=https://scroll.in/reel/824470/go-goyenda-a-guide-to-the-bengali-detectives-who-made-it-to-the-screen-and-the-ones-who-need-to |access-date=8 March 2019 |agency=Scroll |date=2016-12-18}}</ref>

From 1964 till her death in 1993, she was one of the three editors of the Bengali children's magazine ''[[Sandesh (magazine)|Sandesh]]'', which operated out of her home.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Basu |first1=Anasuya |title=Children's treat in autumn |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/children-s-treat-in-autumn/cid/1009042 |access-date=8 March 2019 |agency=The Telegraph |publisher=ABP |date=2017-10-14}}</ref> She wrote a book about the childhood days of her cousin [[Satyajit Ray]], ''Shaat Rajar Dhon Ek Manik''.<ref name="shaat" /> She edited children's books along with Lila Majumdar and Ray.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Das |first=Nalini |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2r8oqeRJOOcC&q=David+Hare+Training+College+nalini+das |title=The Lu Quartet: Super Sleuths and Other Stories |date=2012-11-30 |publisher=Hachette India |isbn=978-93-5009-621-5 |language=en}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Nalini Das married Ashokananda Das, brother of Bengali poet [[Jibanananda Das]].<ref name="kolkatarkorcha"/><ref>{{cite news |title=পৃথিবীতে নেই কোনো বিশুদ্ধ চাকরি |url=https://www.prothomalo.com/onnoalo/article/1579476/%E2%80%98%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%83%E0%A6%A5%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%87-%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8B-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A7-%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E2%80%99 |access-date=5 March 2019 |agency=Prothom Alo |issue=2019–02–17}}</ref> Writer and publisher Amitananda Das is their son.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Das |first1=Nalini |title=Goyenda Gondalu Samagra 1 |date=Feb 2009 |publisher=New Script |location=Calcutta |edition=1st}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ghorai |first1=Debashish |title=সব পাখি ঘরে আসে, সব নদী, আসেন না জীবনানন্দ! |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/supplementary/patrika/a-write-up-on-jibanananda-das-1.864473 |access-date=5 March 2019 |agency=Ananda Bazar Patrika |issue=2018–09–15 |publisher=ABP}}</ref>

==Awards==
Nalini Das was awarded the Vidyasagar Memorial Award in 1990 by [[Government of West Bengal|West Bengal Govt]].<ref>{{cite web |title=পুরস্কার বিজয়ী বাঙালি লেখক |url=http://www.wbpublibnet.gov.in/scl/html/awared_wining.php |website=State Central Library Kolkata - Government of West Bengal |access-date=5 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017055528/http://www.wbpublibnet.gov.in/scl/html/awared_wining.php |archive-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Published works==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Title
! Publisher
! Year
|-
| Ra-Ka-Je-Te-Na-Pa
| New Script
| 1958
|-
| Rangangarer Rahashya
| Granthaprakash
| 1978
|-
| Madhyarater Ghorshoyar
| Ananda
| 1980
|-
| Oshoririr Ashor - Edited by [[Lila Majumdar]], Nalini Das and [[Satyajit Ray]]
| New Script
| 1988
|-
| Hatighishar Hanabari
| New Script
|
|-
| Saras Rahashya - Edited by [[Lila Majumdar]], Nalini Das and [[Satyajit Ray]]
| New Script
| 1989
|-
| Shaat Rajar Dhon Ek Manik
| New Script
| 1993
|-
| Upendra Kishore Rochona Samagra
| Annapurna Prakashani
|
|-
| Moruprasader Rahashya
| Ananda Publishers
| 1993
|-
| Goyenda Gondalu Samagra - I
| New Script
| 2009
|-
| Goyenda Gondalu Samagra - II
| New Script
| 2012
|-
| The Lu Quartet - Super sleuth and other stories
| Hachette India
| 2012
|-
| Galpa O Upanyas Samagra - III
| New Script
| 2014
|-
| Europer Chithi
| New Script
| 2016
|}<ref>{{cite web |title="au:"নলিনী দাশ" |url=http://sclopac.wbpublibnet.gov.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=au:%22%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%80%20%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B6%22 |website=WEST BENGAL PUBLIC LIBRARY OPAC |access-date=8 March 2019}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:1916 births]]
[[Category:1993 deaths]]
[[Category:Bengali writers]]
[[Category:Scottish Church College alumni]]
[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the University of Calcutta]]
[[Category:Women writers from West Bengal]]

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