Jyotirmoy Datta is a Bengali writer, journalist, poet, and an essayist.
15 Facts About Jyotirmoy Datta
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Jyotirmoy Datta worked for The Statesman, Calcutta's oldest English-language daily, as feature writer, film critic, correspondent, and associate editor.
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Jyotirmoy Datta has published 2 books of verse, several novels and collections of essays and short stories.
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Jyotirmoy Datta attends many poetry readings in Manhattan and Queens and is a famous figure among the Indians and New York poets.
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Jyotirmoy Datta was born in West Bengal in 1936, but grew up in various places in India, mostly South India.
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Jyotirmoy Datta was brought up in forest areas and was 11 when India gained independence from the British.
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Minakshi Jyotirmoy Datta is the daughter of another important figure in Bengali poetry, Buddhadev Bose.
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Jyotirmoy Datta's mother was the singer and writer, Protibha Bose, many of whose novels have been bestsellers and have been made into hit movies.
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Jyotirmoy Datta was in conflict with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the late 1970s.
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Jyotirmoy Datta wrote a story critical of her in his magazine Kolkata.
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Jyotirmoy Datta's family was watched by the Indian government in this time period.
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Jyotirmoy Datta had to become a fugitive for more than two years and once jumped from a three-story house to escape from the police.
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Jyotirmoy Datta's ankle was badly injured because of this event.
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Jyotirmoy Datta was finally captured by the police and was imprisoned at the Presidency Jail in Calcutta.
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Jyotirmoy Datta's son, Mallinath Datta, is an executive at a large advertising agency and an independent film director who directed Full Masti.