Jibanananda Das

Jibanananda Das was born in Barisal on 17 February 1899, the son of a schoolmaster involved in the Brahmo Samaj and of the poet Kusumkumari Das. A teacher of English, he lost his post at City College in Calcutta, taught at Bagerhat and in Delhi, then from 1935 to 1947 at Brajamohan College in Barisal, which he left for Calcutta shortly before the partition; his posts there were brief and his life difficult. A discreet man, he published little. Knocked down by a tram on 14 October 1954, he died eight days later; some have seen this as a suicide.

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• PoetryBanalata Senবনলতা সেনJibanananda Das · 1942Literature