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5 unusual facts about Sunil Gangopadhyay


Biren Mookerjee

Sunil Gangopadhyay 2012 novel, Ranu & Bhanu is partly based on her unfinished autobiography.

Jyotirmoy Datta

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.

Krittibas

The editors of the inaugural issue in July 1953 were Sunil Gangopadhyay, Ananda Bagchi and Dipak Mazumdar.

Paul Engle

Additionally, Engle increased enrollment and oversaw numerous students of future fame and influence, including Flannery O'Connor, Philip Levine, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Donald Justice, Raymond Carver and Robert Bly.

Uttarpara

The literary movement had its meetings in their ancestral home Sabarna Villa on Choudhury Para Street, which was visited by such literary stalwarts as Sunil Gangopadhyay, Shakti Chattopadhyay and many others.


Arike

Arike is the latest in that list and is based on a Bengali short story by Sunil Gangopadhyay, whose novel was also the base for the director's Ore Kadal.

Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo

The poem is featured in the 2013 bengali movie Mishawr Rawhoshyo directed by Srijit Mukherji, based on the fictional character named Kakababu by Sunil Gangopadhyay.


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