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==Formative years== | ==Formative years== | ||
He was born on 28 August 1904. The family hailed from [[Jejur]] in [[Hooghly district]]. In the early 1920s, he quit studies to become a Congress ''[[khadi]]'' (hand spun cloth became a symbol of self-reliance) worker | He was born in a [[Kayastha]] Family on 28 August 1904. The family hailed from [[Jejur]] in [[Hooghly district]]. In the early 1920s, he quit studies to become a Congress ''[[khadi]]'' (hand spun cloth became a symbol of self-reliance) worker.<ref name="Sengupta">{{cite news|url=http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?date=2004-08-15&usrsess=1344163791769&clid=4&id=79542 |title=A much maligned man |access-date=2007-02-21 |last=Sengupta |first=Sukharanjan |work=Tribute to Atulya Ghosh, the forgotten freedom fighter |publisher=The Statesman 15 August 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929123809/http://www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?date=2004-08-15&usrsess=1344163791769&clid=4&id=79542 |archive-date=29 September 2007 }}</ref> | ||
He was a member first of the Calcutta and then Hooghly district [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] committees. During this period he also came in contact with Bhupendranath Dutta (brother of Narendranath Dutta, better known as Swami Vivekananda). According to his own admission in his autobiography ( Kashtokalpito) he was fully converted to the Gandhian mode of struggle by Vijay Modak, a well known philanthropist and Congress organizer of the Hooghly district. According to him, he started out on his political career as a "grassroots" worker with one of his first duties being carrying ladders and putting up political posters (Kashtokalpito). In 1930, he was arrested as a suspect in the murder case of a policeman in Midnapore but was released because of lack of evidence. He had to go underground for some time as during this period the British government of India used various acts to justify physical repression or elimination of political activists not necessarily involved in armed movements. (autobiography - Kashtokalpito). He spent two years hiding out with the family of a fisherman sharing their life (Kashtokalpito). During the Quit India movement of 1942 he was arrested and lost one eye in jail, as a result of police action on detainees inside the jail on protest strike when a baton was inserted into one eye. During the same period he contracted spinal tuberculosis and had to be hospitalized. He suffered from mis-advertent administration of drugs while in jail, but reportedly officially forgave the British surgeon in charge when the latter apologized (autobiography - Kashtokalpito). On his release he was diagnosed with severe malnutrition and was instructed to maintain a minimal body weight by the reputed physician and Congress leader and the second Chief minister of West Bengal of independent India, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy (autobiography-Kashtakalpito). He became editor of the weekly Janasevak in 1945. It was converted to a daily in 1949.<ref name= "Bose8"/> | He was a member first of the Calcutta and then Hooghly district [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] committees. During this period he also came in contact with Bhupendranath Dutta (brother of Narendranath Dutta, better known as Swami Vivekananda). According to his own admission in his autobiography ( Kashtokalpito) he was fully converted to the Gandhian mode of struggle by Vijay Modak, a well known philanthropist and Congress organizer of the Hooghly district. According to him, he started out on his political career as a "grassroots" worker with one of his first duties being carrying ladders and putting up political posters (Kashtokalpito). In 1930, he was arrested as a suspect in the murder case of a policeman in Midnapore but was released because of lack of evidence. He had to go underground for some time as during this period the British government of India used various acts to justify physical repression or elimination of political activists not necessarily involved in armed movements. (autobiography - Kashtokalpito). He spent two years hiding out with the family of a fisherman sharing their life (Kashtokalpito). During the Quit India movement of 1942 he was arrested and lost one eye in jail, as a result of police action on detainees inside the jail on protest strike when a baton was inserted into one eye. During the same period he contracted spinal tuberculosis and had to be hospitalized. He suffered from mis-advertent administration of drugs while in jail, but reportedly officially forgave the British surgeon in charge when the latter apologized (autobiography - Kashtokalpito). On his release he was diagnosed with severe malnutrition and was instructed to maintain a minimal body weight by the reputed physician and Congress leader and the second Chief minister of West Bengal of independent India, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy (autobiography-Kashtakalpito). He became editor of the weekly Janasevak in 1945. It was converted to a daily in 1949.<ref name= "Bose8"/> | ||
For some time he worked in the Hooghly bank, founded by the Congress leader Dhirendra Nath Mukherji. In 1947, he organized a Congress Seva Dal camp at Howrah station to assist elderly AICC members. | For some time he worked in the Hooghly bank, founded by the Congress leader Dhirendra Nath Mukherji. In 1947, he organized a Congress Seva Dal camp at Howrah station to assist elderly AICC members.<ref name= "Sengupta"/> | ||
==At the helm== | ==At the helm== | ||
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== Works == | == Works == | ||
'' Patrabali'' | * ''Patrabali'' | ||
* ''Kastakalpito'' | |||
* ''Sampradayik Samasya'' | |||
* ''Nairajyabadir Dristite Gandhiji''<ref name= "Bose8"/> | |||
* ''Ahimsa and Gandhi''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ghosh|first=Atulya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_7QQAQAAIAAJ|title=Ahimsa and Gandhi|date=1954|publisher=Congress Bhawan|language=en}}</ref> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||