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Chakreshwar Bhattacharyya

Mr Chakreshwar Bhattacharyya (March 1918- April 1969) was a litterateur from the state of Assam located in India’s Northeast. He was born as a first child into a Brahmin family of nimno maddhyabitto sreni (lower middle-class) in Issadaghariya, Rangiya Rajah Chakra of Kamrup district. He passed his high school leaving certificate in 1936 securing first division from Cotton Collegiate High School. In 1938, he accomplished his IA examination from Cotton College; again obtaining first division. Having completed his graduation from Cotton College in 1940, he went on to pursue his Masters in Calcutta University and returned to Assam after successful completion in 1942. Mr Bhattacharyya was a follower of Marxist ideology and Gandhian philosophy and was one of the active participants of Indian Nationalist Movement. In the 1930s, Assamese literature witnessed a movement in progressive/enlightening/modern thinking. The journal Jayanti launched in 1938 under the leadership of Bihogi Kobi (poet of birds) Raghunath Choudhury is a testimony of such progressive endeavour. Mr Bhattacharyya worked as a joint editor of Jayanti from 1943-1946. His versatile writings demonstrate the application of the Marxist notions of dialectical materialism, idealism, etc. From the age of 20/21, Bhattacharyya started his writings in Assamese and Hindi language. His writings can be divided into three groups— 'Suti Galpa' (short stories), Katha Kabita (poems in prose/poems of literary composition) and Prabandha (a literary genre of medieval Sanskrit literature). Posuya, Jayanti, Dehli (annual magazine of the Assamese students of Delhi) published his writings, which include—series on the lives of Karmaveer Nabin Chandra Bordoloi (1875-1936), Mahatma Gandhi (the Father of the Nation), Bonphulor Kobi, Jatindra Nath Duwara( 1892-1964), Bihogi Kobi 's (1879–1967) Dohi Kotora, Bhabananda Dutta (1919-69), Madhav Dev, etc. Bhattacharyya was perhaps, the third Assamese literary scholar to contribute to Katha Kabita. His predecessors were Katha Kabita by Bonphulor Kobi in 1933 and Nabamallika by Bihogi Kobi published in 1958. It was after Bhattacharyya ‘s demise that the Katha Kabita, Rajpathar Sil containing 11 Katha Kabitas were published. Chakreshwar Bhattacharyya worked as an Assistant News Editor (for Assamese news) at All India Radio, Delhi from 1946-1965. He returned to Guwahati in 1965 following his promotion as a News Editor of All India Radio, Guwahati but breathed his last suddenly in April 1969 due to cardiac arrest. Although Bhattacharyya was a conscientious litterateur, many of his writings that were preserved in a wooden almirah at his Rajgarh residence, could not be conserved as the spurt of flash floods of Guwahati obliterated most of his works. However, some of his writings that were rescued were published in 2008 by his youngest brother, Professor Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya in a book form entitled Pragatisil Sahitya Aru Pragatibadi Chakreshwar Bhattacharyyar Nirbachita Rasana Sankalan.