Saroj Dutta
Saroj Dutta | |
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সরোজ দত্ত | |
CPIML | |
In office 1969–1971 | |
Preceded by | Sushital Ray Chowdhury |
Personal details | |
Born | 13 March 1914 Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) |
Other political affiliations | Communist Party of India (1949-1964) Communist Party of India (Marxist) (1964-1967) |
Spouse | Bela Dutta |
Children | Siraj Dutta Kunal Dutta |
Alma mater | University of Calcutta Scottish Church College |
Profession | Politician, poet, journalist, Social Worker |
Saroj Dutta (March 13, 1914 – August 5, 1971) popularly known comrade SD, was an Indian communist intellectual and poet, active in the
It is commonly thought that he was killed in a police encounter on August 5, 1971, but till now he was missing in police and state records.[2][3]
Early life and education
He was born in a land-owning family in
Career
Dutta joined the Amrit Bazar Patrika in early 1940s, after completing his studies, however he was fired in 1949 for joining violent activities as a member of the
Attracted to a more radical form of revolutionary Marxism, he along with Sushital Ray Chowdhury and some other Calcutta intellectuals, supported the Charu Majumdar-led Naxalbari uprising in May 1967. In April 1969, he was also one of the founder members of Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist), CPI (ML), an organisation which was outlawed a year later[6] for conducting armed guerrilla warfare targeted at the landlords and the police.
Death
Police Arrested Dutta from his friend Debiprasad Chattapadhyaya's home on the night of August 4–5, 1971. It is stated that he was killed by the
In 1977, after the CPI(M) returned to power with a Left-front majority, many Naxalite sympathisers[9] signed on a petition seeking an investigation of Saroj Dutta's death. The petition was given to the chief minister Jyoti Basu. However, no investigation has ever been held.[10]
His comrade, Charu Majumdar died in police custody a year later.[2]
Film
A feature-length documentary film, S.D. :Saroj Dutta and His Times, directed by Kasturi Basu and Mitali Biswas in 2018, featured Dutta's journey as a poet, journalist, translator, ideologue and revolutionary.[11] The film contains the only on-camera interviews of two eyewitnesses - Debiprasad Chattopadhyay and Manjusha Chattopadhyay - of Saroj Dutta's abduction and disappearance by the Kolkata Police.[12]
External links
- Media related to Saroj Dutta at Wikimedia Commons
References
- ISBN 8171672949.Appendix B
- ^ a b Shamanth Rao (10 March 2011). "The remains of Naxalbari". Livemint. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ^ a b Suniti Kumar Ghosh (1993). The Historic Turning-point: A Liberation Anthology. S.K. Ghosh. p. 135.
- ^ Tribute to Saroj Dutta
- ISBN 0195647653.
- ^ "History of Naxalism". Hindustan Times. PTI. 15 December 2005. Archived from the original on 22 July 2013.
- ^ "Countering the Maoists". DNA. India. 12 July 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
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- ^ "Come, let us take the country along a new road!". marxists.org. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- ^ "Frontier articles on Society & Politics". frontierweekly.com. Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- ^ Ramnath, Nandini (19 July 2018). "A new documentary revisits the life of Bengali poet Saroj Dutta and the ferment of Naxalbari". Scroll.in. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- ^ "S.D. : SAROJ DUTTA AND HIS TIMES* – Film South Asia". Retrieved 13 January 2022.