Dinesh Das | |
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| Born | (1913-09-16)16 September 1913 |
| Died | 13 March 1985(1985-03-13) (aged 71) |
Dinesh Das (16 September 1913 – 13 March 1985) was aBengalipoet andCommunist activist.
He was born in his maternal home at Chetla inAlipore, a locality on the bank ofAdi Ganga creek in aMahishya family. His father was Rishikesh Das.[1] When he was in Class IX, at around 15 years old, he became involved in secret revolutionaryIndian independence movement. He also became involved inMohandas Karamchand Gandhi's SaltSatyagraha movement which hampered his formal education. However, he passed Matriculation Examination in 1930, and I.A. in 1932 from the South Suburban College (nowAsutosh College). In 1933, he was admitted to B.A. inScottish Church College. In 1934, first poem "Sraboney" was published inDesh. However, he could not complete his B.A. due to his revolutionary and literary activities. In 1935, he took a job at Khayerbari Tea Estate and moved toKurseong. There he became disillusioned withGandhism and on return toCalcutta next year, he became inspired bycommunism and read writings ofKarl Marx,Friedrich Engels andRalph Fox. In 1937, he created a stir with his poemKaste (Sickle). He immortalizedKolkata's Clive Street in one of his poems:[2][3][4]
Here, in a hundred snake-like veins,
Streams of people come and go.
Through these shrunken veins the blood,
Of the country must flow.
O Mighty City's beating heart,
O Clive Street of Bengal,
A thousand dumb veins freeze to make,
The cornerstone of your high hall.
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