Nishikanto Roy Chowdhury
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(24.03.1909, Unao city, Uttar Pradesh – 1973) Sadhak. Lived at Ashram of Sri Aurobindo. Became famous Bengali poet and painter.
Father: Bijoyshankar Raichowdhury, mother: Soudamini Devi.
Joined the Ashram in February 1934 Sri Aurobindo was an ardent admirer of his poetry and had called him the ‘Brahmaputra of Inspiration’. He is also known as the lyricist of some of Dilip Kumar Roy’s best-known songs in Bengali. Nishikanto has to his credit ten books of Bengali verse and one of English.
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In English
Nishikanto, Roy Chowdhury
Dream Cadences
• Pondicheґry : Kishor H. Gandhi, 1946.
Nishikanto, Roy Chowdhury
Some poems
Anurag Banerjee
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Nishikanto: the Brahmaputra of Inspiration