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CHANDRASHEKHAR BHATTACHARYA
CHANDRASHEKHAR BHATTACHARYA (Bengali: ) (born 1980) is an Indian poet. Bhattacharya writes in Bangla and is widely considered as one of the most important Bengali poets of his generation.

Biography
was born on September 16, 1980 in Rangeelabad, 24 paragana South. His family moved to Ranaghat, West Bengal shortly after and he has lived there ever since. Goswami was introduced and encouraged about poetry by his father, a well known political worker in the area. He lost his father at the age of six, after which the family was sustained by his mother, a teacher. She died in 1984. Goswami's formal education stopped early, in grade eleven. By this time he was already writing poetry. After a long period of writing in little magazines and periodicals, his writing was finally published in the influential Desh Patrika. This brought his immediate critical acclaim and so long after his first poetry collection was published, named Christmas o Sheeter Sonnetguchchho (Sonets of Christmas and Winter). He has received the Anita-Sunil Basu Award from the Bangla Akademi, Govt of W.B. the prestigious Ananda Purashkar in 1989 for Ghumiyechho, Jhaupata? (Have you slept, Pine leaf?) and the Sahitya Akademi Award, 2000 for his anthology Pagali tomara sange(With you, O crazy girl). A poet of romantic genre initially, he started writing political poems of late and has become an important voice of opposition politics, specially of BJP and Trinamul Congress.