Dinesh Das

Dinesh Das (16 September 1913 - 1985) was a Bengali poet. He created a stir with his poem Kaste (Sickle). He immortalized Kolkata's Clive Street in one of his poems^[1] :

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.

Works

• Kabita (Poems)
• Bhukhmichhil (Hunger Procession)
• Kancher Manush (Glass Humans)
• Ram gechhe Banabase (Ram is in Forest Exile)
• Kaste (Scythe; also part of the symbol of the Communist Party): an allegory on modern industrial life

References

1. ^ [1]

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Name	Das, Dinesh
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Date of birth	16 September 1913
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Date of death	1985
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