INDIAN COMMUNIST FIGURES IN CALCUTTA

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• Publication Date: March 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. Shivaram Chakravarty, tethov?
of the Friends of the Sevier
at the afle of 1f joined nhi
prisoned on more Ulm ere coet
As an author, his werts hev.
and historical essaya In
Bolshevism and the doctrine c-
ol* nolini "tante t)upta and othe
0ppalHalder, Cotrunist ant:kc ?
(Vlkrampore), the Da0cm ciirtrt
and anleuttn, he has -,ivos:71.1
practice law. Helder was itipc
tionary activities. Ik wil*p.
activities,eander the West Lei:
outlawin,:3eL the Gorirrn:b.t. Par
Communism serioasly, laIder
1There he iscocupied '4-11 the
cent and conversion to Ceonuai
a pro-Communist mort4:.
books, inclading Fr_k211 and
Tledern Review and the -
illelorist? and reported communist, is a meeber
rion. Born in Calcutta in 1908, Cbakravarty
A non-cooperation movement. Be was lm-
Lon for his activities with that movement.
Aeluded drama, humorous poetry, and political
nook, los:sJE vs. Pondicheeey, he extolls -
f Karl lat in comparivon with the teachings
?;:. spiritual leaders of India.
War" born in 1901, in the villa grof Bidgaon
t of -last Pakistan. Educated in Noakheli
aid ELL. degreea,but does not, neve-sser
isoned during the years 1932-37 for revolu-
oently interned in Calcutta for subversive
al Sacarity Act. This was shortly after the
Ly in :jest Bengal. A person who takes his
a leader of the Bencal Peasant Ubvement
ractioal aspects of Communism, i.e. reerui4
t ideals. A former editor of the Parieha 2
ma'azino, Raider has -written a number of
'laver Juddhal and has contributed to Th-
3. Snahangeu 1,charyya, aLlo t ae Dcdo, has championed the cause of pro-
Communist mIempnt43 in ;1, :;az,'L labor union. Acharyyn is the younost son
of the late ',aharaja 3n31 hal Lcharyya of lymensingh, Bengal. He is a
well-educated Benlali, a oe(ia ,tent barrister at the Calcutta High Couet?
and considered to 1:1-!. in ,ialist, having an interest in the Bata Co.
as a shareholder. '* Aso Lieeerna himself with many public institutions
and charities and ia 101316e" d a public leader in the community.
4. Vivekananda tiukeree? nLi :204, is a Communist journalist. He began
his journalistic career at /I'm of 21 as an apprentice on the Anai.?A
Bazar Patrika, the -%arl....at, daily newspaper, and worked his way up
to the-5;141am of loiet tr. In 1937 he left thr, latter paper and
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chief edier of another Bengali daily. Nhkerjee is the
f writer Inv appea I rather than to emotion, and bee written
r of good books. P Juddha Diary (Diary of the J./a:new War)
and Ruseo-Oerman Judd) p -7rnerica? have been widely read and aTprl-
oimtE1Tn poetcnl work, Satahalir Saneait (the Century Sone:), was
banned by the Covernhoet undr the West7laigafgicurity Act within six
weeks of publication. inoth,r if his poetical works, !!ayika (the Heroine
was also banned ahortlar rafter Folication and the publlsher imprisoned.
Kaman Ganuly, bore 191j', .s a pro-communiet profesaor of Bengali
literature at City Colleee, ^]citta. Re received an M.A. degree from
Calcutta Univers-Ay. A preliao writer, his first novel, Upanibesh (Colony),
was published while he was ti1. a college student. An =compromising
opponent of capitalise, as is ;ell shown in his nueerous yritinge, his
short stories, and articles apppar in almost all Bengali journals of repute
Among those whiel have become widely known are the following books: Beetsa
Timir Tirtha, Dush.sa-isastsli blrya Sarathi, Janmantaro and Baitalik.
6. Satyendra Nath Rasumdar was brin in 1893 at Tangail, a sub-division of
Waensingh, East rakiatan. A ,leurnalist, editor of Bears he is a communist
and president of the ftirnda of the Soviet Union. ear career included
work as an employee of the Corch Behar State, cloth merohant in Calcutta,
the theatre as an actor, and a pasitien with the Bindusthan Insurance CO.
He started in journalia4 as a tab-editor to the now defunct Bengali moathly,
timrayan. From 1920 to 1921 he was employed in an editorial capacity on the
knanda besar Patrika, and after that became an editor on the Ju, tar.
rin Fa-a times Ile has 1,g-et editor of the Bengali weekly Arani and .
the daily Swaraj. These letter two papers are presently banned under the
West Bengal security Aot. 1-1-e 5wara4 was a particularly strong ?raw) of
the Commenist Part-. liazumdar includes among his writings a biography of
Stalin and a translatien of Moires autobiography. He has mon reputption
as an author of aansicierable alility by his 5anaj-0-Sahltya (Society and
Literature).
7. Manik Bannerjee another Oormunist author, is vice president of the rriendr
of the Soviet kat:. Born in 2908 at lik:ampore, Daoca district of waist
Bengal, he moved with his famai as a young man and lived in various towns
in the Bengal area. ldeeated in Bankura, Vast Bengal, as well as in Cal-
cutta, he had his firit story tublished, Atasi apl, at the age of 20.
Having a keen undest*tdin or the life of iTiffering and endless toil of
the unfortunate cleave:40 hie writings are greatly sought after by the
nmiority of Bengali poPlishere. It is thought that his sympathy for these
unfortunates has inflaonoed hir to become a Communist.
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