Sukanta Bhattacharya

Sukanta Bhattacharya
Bhattacharya in the 1940s
Born	(1926-08-15)15 August 1926 Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now West Bengal, India)
Died	13 May 1947(1947-05-13) (aged 20) Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now West Bengal, India)
Pen name	Kishore Kabi
Occupation	Poet, writer
Language	Bengali
Nationality	British India
Genre	Poet, short-story writer, playwright
Subject	Literature
Literary movement	Bengali Renaissance
Notable works	Chharpatra Purbabhash Ghum Nei Hortal Abhizan
Parents	Nibaran Chandra Bhattacharya (father) Suniti Devi (mother)
Relatives	Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (nephew)

Sukanta Bhattacharya (Bengali: সুকান্ত ভট্টাচার্য) (Bhôṭṭācharjo^ⓘ; 15 August 1926 – 13 May 1947) was a Bengali poet.^[1]

He was called 'Young Nazrul' and 'Kishore Bidrohi Kobi', a reference to the great rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam for Sukanta's similar rebellious stance against the tyranny of the British Raj and the oppression by the social elites through the work of his poetry.^[2] He died from tuberculosis, three months before India achieved independence.