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Amiya Chandra Chakravarty

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DOB : 10-04-1901
Date of death: 12-06-1986
Lived For : 84 Years
Star Sign : Aries
Gender : Male

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Amiya Chandra Chakravarty was an academic, Bengali poet, and literary critic from India. He was born on April 10, 1901, in Serampore, West Bengal, India's Hughli District. Dwijesh Chandra Chakravarty, his father, served as the diwan of Assam's Gauripur Estate. Anindita Devi, his mother, was a well-known feminist author. He had a close relationship with Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. He accompanied Gandhi on the Salt March and edited a few of Tagore's poetry volumes. He once represented India as a representative to the UN. He completed his high school education in Calcutta before earning his degree from St. Columba's College in Hazaribag. Later, in 1921, he enrolled in Visva-Bharati University to pursue his academic education.

He left India in 1933 to further his education at Oxford University, and in 1940 he returned to the country to take a position as a professor of English at the University of Calcutta. Chakravarty returned to the US in 1948 and enrolled in Howard University's English department. He produced severalnumber of popular poems and works of fiction while he was living in India or the US. Chalo Jai and Ghare Pherar Din are among his most well-known works of poetry; he also composed most of them in Bengali. Kabitabali (1925), Khasore (1938), Ek Avigyan Basonta (1943), Parapar (1953), Pushpito Image (1967), Amarabati (1972), Anishesh (1976), Natun Kabita (1987), and Sampratik are some of the works mentioned (1963). He has published a lot of novels in English. His poetry reflects his love of the natural world and aesthetic beauty.

For his outstanding work, Amiya Chakravarty also received major honors. He received the Watumull Foundation Award and the Albert Schweitzer Medal in 1961 for his efforts to advance world peace (1967). He received a 1960 Unesco Academy Prize for literature as well as a DLit from Rabindra Bharati University. In 1963, he received the Sahitya Akademi Prize in recognition of his poems. In 1970, the Indian government awarded him the Padma Bhushan. Along with meeting many of the most prominent historical people of the time, Chakravarty also had encounters with Jawaharlal Nehru, Albert Schweitzer, Boris Pasternak, Albert Einstein, and Thomas Merton. On June 12, 1986, Amiya Chakravarty passed away in Shantiniketan, India.