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| birth_place = [[Jaynagar]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sengupta |first1=Samir |title=Shakti Chattopadhyay |edition= 1st|series=Makers of Indian Literature|year= 2005 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |location=New Delhi |isbn= 978-81-260-2003-4 |page= 5 }}</ref> | | birth_place = [[Jaynagar]], [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sengupta |first1=Samir |title=Shakti Chattopadhyay |edition= 1st|series=Makers of Indian Literature|year= 2005 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |location=New Delhi |isbn= 978-81-260-2003-4 |page= 5 }}</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''' (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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==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category: Writers from Kolkata]] | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||