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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1920|05|24}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Narsingdi District|Narsingdi]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|03|08|1920|05|24}}<br />
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'''Somen Chanda''' ({{lang-bn|সোমেন চন্দ}}; 24 May 1920 – 8 March 1942) was a [[Marxism|Marxist]] activist, writer and trade union leader of [[Bengal]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Somen Chanda was born in [[Narsingdi District]], [[British India]] in 1920.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/in-focus/we-shall-overcome-1355557|title=We shall overcome|date=February 4, 2017|access-date=May 4, 2018}}</ref> In 1936 he passed Entrance examination from [[Pogose School]] and entered in medical school attached with [[Mitford Hospital, Dhaka|Mitford hospital]] in [[Dhaka|Dacca]]. He was attracted to [[Marxism|marxist politics]] and [[trade union movement]] in student life.<ref name="Vol - I 2002">{{Cite book|title=Sansab Bangali Charitavidhan (Bengali)|last=Vol - I|first=Subodh C. Sengupta & Anjali Basu|publisher=Sahitya Sansad|year=2002|isbn=81-85626-65-0|location=Kolkata|pages=606}}</ref><br />
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==Literary works==<br />
Chanda joined in [[Progressive Writers' Movement|Progressive Writers' Association]] or ''Pragati Lekhak Sangha'' and [[Anti-fascism|anti fascist]] activism in Dhaka. He wrote his first novel Banya while he was 17. He wrote number of short stories, drama and articles in their literary journals which were collectively published posthumously.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://libnet.vidyasagar.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=11176&query_desc=su%3A%7BBANGLA%20SAHITYA-KABYA%7D%20and%20itype%3ABK|title=Soumen Chanda o tar rachana sangraha|access-date=May 4, 2018}}</ref> His stories were translated in many languages.<ref name="Vol - I 2002" /><br />
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==Death==<br />
While leading a rally of workers of [[East Bengal Railway]] organised by the Soviet Suhrid Samity in Dhaka, Chanda was attacked by some hooligans and killed brutally on 8 March. 1942.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MK-gKwmDf0sC&q=Somen+Chanda+Dhaka&pg=PA15|title=Arun Mitra|last=Abanti K. Sanyal|year=2003|isbn=9788126017546|access-date=May 4, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9ZEDvcJdVRMC&q=Somen+Chanda+Dhaka&pg=PA17|title=Samar Sen|last=Nityapriẏa Ghosha|year=2001|isbn=9788126011100|access-date=May 4, 2018}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1920 births]]<br />
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[[Category:Anti-imperialism]]<br />
[[Category:Assassinated Indian politicians]]<br />
[[Category:Modernist writers]]<br />
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[[Category:People from Narsingdi District]]<br />
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