Manindra Ray (4 October 1919 – 28 August 2000) was an Indian

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poet and editor.

Career

Ray was born in Sitlai village in

Pabna District Pabna District ( bn, পাবনা জেলা) is a district in central Bangladesh. It is an economically important district in Bangladesh. Its administrative capital is the eponymous Pabna town. History Archeologist Cunningham conjectured ...

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. His parents are Shachandra Ray and Subhasini Devi. Ray studied in

Surendranath College Surendranath College is an undergraduate college affiliated to the University of Calcutta, in Kolkata, India. It was founded in 1884 by the nationalist leader and scholar Surendranath Banerjee. The Women's section of the college was founded ...

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and attracted to

communism Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, ...

. His first book of poems ''Trishanku'' was published in 1939. Ray edited number of little magazine. He was awarded

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

for his poetry 'Mohini Aral' in 1969. In 1993, he was awarded the

Rabindra Puraskar The Rabindra Puraskar (also Rabindra Smriti Puraskar) is the highest honorary literary award given in the Indian state of West Bengal. This award is named after the famous Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore and is administered by the Government of W ...

for his book 'Sonnet Samagra'. Ray was the co-editor of a Weekly literary magazine ''Amrita''.

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