Akshay Kumar Baral (; 1860–1919) was an Indian

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poet and writer. He was born in

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. The family originally hailed from

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Early life

Baral was born in 1860 in Chorbagan, Calcutta,

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. He studied at

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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.

Career

Boral was a fan of poet

Biharilal Chakraborty Biharilal Chakraborty () was a Bengalis, Bengali poet and music composer. He is often considered as the pioneer of musical poetry in Bengali literature. Rabindranath Tagore was influenced by the works of Biharilal Chakraborty and named him "Mor ...

Sisir Kumar Das Sisir Kumar Das (1936–2003) was an Indian scholar of literature, specializing in Indian literature, as well as a linguist, poet, playwright, translator, and comparatist. His three-volume ''A History of Indian Literature'' (covering 1800–19 ...

described Boral's poetry as meditative and thoughtful. According to Narayan Choudhuri, he wrote some of the best examples of elegiac poems in Indian literature.

Bibliography

Plays *''Prodip'' (1884) *''Kanakanjoli'' (1885) *''Shankha'' (1910) *''Esha'' (1912) *''Vul'' *''Chandidas'' (1917)

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