Around this time, Seely met the Bengali poet and journalist Jyotirmoy Datta at a writer's workshop in Iowa.
Datta, along with Sunil Gangopadhyay, Tarun Sanyal and Satrajit Datta were defense witnesses in the famous trial of Hungryalist poet Malay Roy Choudhury, which shows his greatness, since he did not agree with the Hungryalist school of poetry.
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He worked for The Statesman, Calcutta's oldest English-language daily, as feature writer, film critic, correspondent, and associate editor.
Datta | Dhirendranath Datta | Bishakha Datta | Anwesha Datta Gupta | Naomi Datta | Jyotirmoy Dey | Jyotirmoy Datta | Durjoy Datta | Durjoy datta | Datta, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Akshay Kumar Datta |