Mihir Sengupta

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

Mihir Sengupta
Born	1 September, 1946 Keora, Barisal, British India
Died	17 January, 2022 (Age 75) Kolkata, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Brojomohun College
Occupation(s)	Bank employee, writer
Notable work	Bisadbrikhho
Awards	Ananda Purashkar (2005)

He was best known for his 2005 autobiography Bishaad Brikkho ('Tree of Sorrow').^[1][2] It describes the atrocities of post-partition East Pakistan as seen by the author, who was uprooted from his native Barisal 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.^[3]