Shankha Ghosh
1932–2021Bengali poet, literary critic and educator (1932-2021)
Home Minister of West Bengal
Kiran Shankar Roy
1891–1949, writes in Bangla, writer, short story writer
Kiran Shankar Roy, also credited as Kiron Sankar Roy was an Indian politician, academic, and freedom fighter. He was one of the leading figures of the Swaraj Party in the anti-British independence movement of the Indian subcontinent and one-time colleague of Subhas Chandra Bose and associate of Sarat Chandra Bose. He was one of Bengal’s big five prominent Congress leaders during the two decades 1920s and 1940s. Roy was also a Leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party in the Bengal Assembly
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Also writing in Bangla
Annada Shankar Ray
1905–2002writer, poet, essayist (1905-2002)
Sunil Gangopadhyay
1934–2012Award-winning and bestselling Bengali poet and author (1934-2012)
Satyajit Ray
1921–1992filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
1894–1950Bengali author (1894–1950)
Alokranjan Dasgupta
1933–2020Bengali poet (1933-2020)