1. Amiya Chandra Chakravarty was an Indian literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet.
22 Facts About Amiya Chakravarty
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Amiya Chakravarty was a close associate of Rabindranath Tagore, and edited several books of his poetry.
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Amiya Chakravarty was an associate of Gandhi, and an expert on the American catholic writer and monk, Thomas Merton.
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Amiya Chakravarty taught literature and comparative religion in India for nearly a decade and then for more than two decades at universities in England and the US In 1970, he was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Bhushan award.
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Amiya Chakravarty studied in Hare School, Calcutta and graduated from St Columba's College, Hazaribagh, which was then under Patna University.
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Amiya Chakravarty joined Visva-Bharati University in 1921 as a student.
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Amiya Chakravarty was literary secretary to Rabindranath Tagore from 1924 to 1933.
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Amiya Chakravarty was Tagore's travel companion during his tours to Europe and America in 1930 and to Iran and Iraq in 1932.
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Amiya Chakravarty was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, walking with Gandhi in the Salt March of 1930.
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Amiya Chakravarty worked at Oxford as a senior research fellow from 1937 to 1940.
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Amiya Chakravarty moved back to India in 1940 to become a professor of English at the University of Calcutta.
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In 1948, Amiya Chakravarty moved to the US to join the Department of English in Howard University.
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Amiya Chakravarty held professorships at Smith College and later the State University of New York at New Paltz.
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Amiya Chakravarty wrote both poetry and prose and a number of articles in journals of India, England and the United States.
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Amiya Chakravarty wrote many verse collections in Bengali, most notable among these are Chalo Jai and Ghare Pherar Din.
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Amiya Chakravarty's poetry reflects idealism, humanism and a great love of nature and beauty.
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Amiya Chakravarty was awarded the Unesco Prize for his book, Chalo Jai.
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Amiya Chakravarty authored the book Dynasts and the Post-war Age in Poetry, which is a critical work on Thomas Hardy's poetry.
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Amiya Chakravarty met with many of the notable figures of his time, including Jawaharlal Nehru, Albert Schweitzer, Boris Pasternak, Albert Einstein and Thomas Merton.
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Amiya Chakravarty visited Merton in November 1966 at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky.
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Amiya Chakravarty served as a delegate to the United Nations for India.
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Amiya Chakravarty was a consulting editor for The Asian journal of Thomas Merton by Thomas Merton.