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	'''Shakti Chattopadhyay''' (25 November 1933 – 23 March 1995) was an Indian poet and writer who wrote in [[Bengali language\|Bengali]].		'''Shakti Chattopadhyay''' (25 November 1933 – 23 March 1995) was an Indian poet and writer who wrote in [[Bengali language\|Bengali]]. He is known for his realistic depictions of rural life. He was a green poet, many of his poems raised the issue of nature in crisis. Through his poems he urged to protect Mother Nature, and plant trees.

	Shakti Chattopadhyay was born in [[Jaynagar]], to Bamanath Chattopadhyay and Kamala Devi. He lost his father at the age of four and was brought up by his maternal grandfather. He passed Matriculation Examination in 1951 and got admitted to the [[City College, Kolkata\|City College]] to study commerce as his maternal uncle, who was a businessman and also his guardian, promised him a job of an accountant. In 1953, he passed Intermediate Commerce Examination, but gave up studying commerce and got admitted to the [[Presidency College, Kolkata\|Presidency College]] (now [[Presidency University, Kolkata]]) with Honours in [[Bengali literature]] but he did not appear in the examination.		Shakti Chattopadhyay was born in [[Jaynagar]], to Bamanath Chattopadhyay and Kamala Devi. He lost his father at the age of four and was brought up by his maternal grandfather. He passed Matriculation Examination in 1951 and got admitted to the [[City College, Kolkata\|City College]] to study commerce as his maternal uncle, who was a businessman and also his guardian, promised him a job of an accountant. In 1953, he passed Intermediate Commerce Examination, but gave up studying commerce and got admitted to the [[Presidency College, Kolkata\|Presidency College]] (now [[Presidency University, Kolkata]]) with Honours in [[Bengali literature]] but he did not appear in the examination.
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			[[Category: Writers from Kolkata]]

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| pseudonym = Sphulinga Samaddar<ref>{{cite book |last1= Board of Editors|first1=Bangla Akademi |title= Akademi Bidyarthi Bangla Abhidhan|trans-title=Akademi Students' Bengali Dictionary |edition=2nd |year=2009 |orig-year= 1999|publisher= [[Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi]] |location= [[Kolkata]]|language=bn |isbn= 978-81-86908-96-9 |page=875 }}</ref>
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'''Shakti Chattopadhyay''' (25 November 1933 – 23 March 1995) was an Indian poet and writer who wrote in [[Bengali language|Bengali]].

Shakti Chattopadhyay was born in [[Jaynagar]], to Bamanath Chattopadhyay and Kamala Devi. He lost his father at the age of four and was brought up by his maternal grandfather. He passed Matriculation Examination in 1951 and got admitted to the [[City College, Kolkata|City College]] to study commerce as his maternal uncle, who was a businessman and also his guardian, promised him a job of an accountant. In 1953, he passed Intermediate Commerce Examination, but gave up studying commerce and got admitted to the [[Presidency College, Kolkata|Presidency College]] (now [[Presidency University, Kolkata]]) with Honours in [[Bengali literature]] but he did not appear in the examination.

Shakti Chattopadhyay worked with [[Ananda Bazar Patrika]] from 1970 to 1994, and was a visiting professor at [[Visva Bharati University]] after his retirement.<ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=QVOFAAAAQBAJ&q=Shakti+Chattopadhyay+Santiniketan&pg=PA127| title = Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis |work= Sakti Chattopadhyay, Pages 127-128| publisher = Scarecrow Press, USA |access-date = 2 September 2019| isbn = 9780810880245 | date = 22 August 2013 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Gbooks-author|Shakti Chattopadhyay}}
* [http://www.parabaas.com/shakti/index.shtml Shakti Chattopadhyay Section at parabaas.com]
* [http://www.parabaas.com/shakti/articles/bibliography.shtml Complete, chronological bibliography of Shakti Chattopadhyay (in Bengali)]
* [https://ppoddar.github.io/shakti/index.html Selected Poems of Shakti Chattopadhya]
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[[Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Gangadhar National Award]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Ananda Purashkar]]
[[Category:City College, Kolkata alumni]]
[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]
[[Category:Bengali male poets]]
[[Category:Translators of Omar Khayyám]]
[[Category:Hungry generation]]
[[Category:Bengali people]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian translators]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]
[[Category:Poets from West Bengal]]
[[Category:People from Jaynagar Majilpur]]
[[Category:Indian male poets]]