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{{Infobox person
| name = Sulekha Sanyal
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1928|06|15}}
| birth_place = Korokdi, Faridpur, [[East Bengal]], [[British India]] (now in [[Bangladesh]])
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1962|1928}}
| known_for = ''Nabankur''
| alma_mater = Rajendra College
}}

'''Sulekha Sanyal''' (15 June 1928 – c. 1962) was a Bengali writer and activist. She emerged as an early feminist in the region through her work ''Nabankur'' (''The Seedling'') in 1956. The work has been translated to English in 2001 by Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay.<ref name=star>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=84428|title=In Search of Sulekha Sanyal|author=Subrata Kumar Das|date=18 April 2009}}</ref>

==Early life and career==
Sanyal grew up in Korokdi, now in Faridpur [[Bangladesh]], in a decaying [[zamindar]] family that had once been [[indigo]] planters, and was to become a member of the [[Communist Party of India]]. An early influence on her was the [[Brahmo Samaj|Brahmo]] philosopher and reformer, [[Ramtanu Lahiri]], who was related to her mother. Senyal passed the matriculation exam as a private candidate in 1944 and intermediate exam from Rajendra College, Faridpur in 1946. She then went to Kolkata and enrolled herself in Victoria Institute.<ref name=star/>

''Nabankur'' was published in English by Stree in 2001. Its heroine, ''Chhobi'', is a young girl from a rural zamindar family in Bengal of the 1930s, and the book follows her as she learns to fight injustice, protest against the privileges denied her but granted to her brothers, and the restrictions of the patriarchal society around her. [[World War II]] breaks out, cutting short Chhobi's education in the city. She returns to the village, gets involved with relief work and witnesses the [[Bengal famine of 1943]].

Much of the story mirrors Sanyal's own life, for she was born into a similar family, educated briefly in [[Chittagong]], went for undergraduate studies at the [[Scottish Church College]], where she became involved in politics during the Bengal Famine. On 21 January 1947, following a police assault, she was arrested along with her college friends Anjana Guha and Anima Ghosh, and that put an end to formal education.<ref>Basu, Pradip. ''The Question of Colonial Modernity and Scottish Church College'' in ''175th Year Commemoration Volume'', Scottish Church College, April 2008, page 46.</ref> Late in life, she was awarded a degree in [[Bengali literature]] by the [[University of Burdwan]].

Sanyal's first stories were accepted by the newspaper ''[[Jugantar]]''. Sanyal also wrote a collection of short stories, ''Sindure Megh'' (Clouds Tinged with Red). Her ''Dewal Padma'' (Wallflowers) was published in 1964, after her death from leukemia in 1962.

==Personal life==
Sanyal was married from 1948 to 1956. She had a sister Sujata Sanyal and an elder brother Abanti Kumar Sanyal.<ref name=star/>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* ''Women Writing in India: 600 BCE to the Present'', edited by Susie Tharu and K. Lalitha, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993) {{ISBN|978-0-19-563195-1}}
* ''Nabankur (The Seedling)'', translated by Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay, (Calcutta: Stree, 2001) {{ISBN|81-85604-30-4}}

==External links==
*[http://www.bangladeshinovels.com/Sulekha%20Sanyal.pdf A Critique on Sulekha Sanyal]{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}

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