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Bengali poet and writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Akshay Kumar Baral (Bengali: অক্ষয়কুমার বড়াল; 1860–1919) was an Indian Bengali language poet and writer. He was born in Calcutta.[3] The family originally hailed from Chandannagar, Hooghly District.[4]
Akshay Kumar Baral | |
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Born | 1860 |
Died | June 19, 1919 58–59) | (aged
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation | Poet |
Relatives | Amal Dutta (grandson)[1][2] |
Baral was born in 1860 in Chorbagan, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. He studied at Hare School for some time. He worked as an accounts clerk in the Delhi and London Bank. He worked as a secretary at the North-British Life Insurance Company.[3][5]
Boral was a fan of poet Biharilal Chakraborty.[3] Sisir Kumar Das described Boral's poetry as meditative and thoughtful.[6] According to Narayan Choudhuri, he wrote some of the best examples of elegiac poems in Indian literature.[7]
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