Biharilal Chakravarty

Biharilal Chakravarty, born in Calcutta on 21 May 1835, from a family that came from Farashdanga and originally bore the name Chattopadhyay, had almost no schooling and acquired by himself Sanskrit, English and the literature of his own language. He directed in turn the journals Purnima, Sahitya-Sankranti and Abodhbandhu, in which most of his verse appeared, and also contributed to Bharati and Somprakash. Rabindranath Tagore, whose acknowledged master he was, called him the bird of dawn; the poet's son married Tagore's eldest daughter. He died in Calcutta on 24 May 1894, and the street of his house bears his name.

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• Poetryসারদামঙ্গলBiharilal Chakravarty · 1879not translated into EnglishLiterature