Nimai Bhattacharya

Nimai Bhattacharya (10 April 1931 – 25 June 2020) was a writer of Bengali literature who was born in Magura's Shalikha.^[1] He died on 25 June 2020 in Kolkata, aged 89.^{[citation needed]}

Nimai Bhattacharya নিমাই ভট্টাচার্য
Born	10 April 1931 Shalikha, Magura, Bengal Presidency, British India (Bangladesh)
Died	25 June 2020 (aged 89) Tollygunge, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Notable work	Memsaheb

Early life

Bhattacharya's mother died when he was three years old. He matriculated ^[where?] in 1948. He moved to West Bengal from East Bengal.^[1] Then he had passed IA and BA from Ripon College, Calcutta.^{[citation needed]} He started his career in journalism. A novel which was written by him was published in Amritobazar in 1963.^[2] His next four novels were published in the newspaper. After that, he became professional author.^{[citation needed]}

Notable works

He wrote more than 150 books,^[3] one of the most lauded of which was Memsaheb.^[3][4] A film was made based on the book, Mem Saheb (starring Uttam Kumar and Aparna Sen) in leading roles.^[5] Some of his notable books are:

• Memsaheb
• Minibus
• Matal
• Inquilab
• Bachelor
• Kerani
• Rajdhani Express
• Anglo Indian
• Darling
• Your Honour
• Cocktail
• Pother Sheshe