Mihir Sengupta (1946 – 17 January 2022) was an Indian writer of

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literature. He was best known for his 2005 autobiography ''Bishaad Brikkho'' ('Tree of Sorrow'). It describes the atrocities of post-partition East Pakistan as seen by the author, who was uprooted from his native

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in present-day Bangladesh and ended up in Calcutta as a refugee. ''Bishaad Brikkho'' is regarded as an important literary document of the atrocities of post-partition West Pakistan and won the Ananda Puroshkar literary prize. Sengupta died in Kolkata of blood cancer on 17 January 2022, at the age of 75.

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1946 births 2022 deaths Bengali writers Indian autobiographers Recipients of the Ananda Purashkar People from Barisal Writers from Kolkata {{India-writer-stub