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MNA Feature Desk: Bishnu Dey was a prominent Bengali poet, prose writer, translator, academic and art critic in the era of modernism, post-modernism. Starting off as a symbologist, he won recognition for the musical quality of his poems, and forms the post-Tagore generation of Bengali poets, like Buddhadeb Basu and Samar Sen, which marked the advent of “New Poetry” in Bengali literature, deeply influenced by Marxist ideology. He even published a poetry magazine for while wherein he encouraged socially conscious writing. His most important work, poetry collection, Smriti Satta Bhabishyat (Memory, being, the Future) (1955-61), set a new precedent in ...

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