Mihir Sengupta

Mihir Sengupta is an Indian writer of Bengali origin, best known for his 2005 autobiography Bishaad Brikkho (Tree of Sorrow).[1][2] It describes the 1947 partition 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 1947 partition and won the Ananda Puroshkar literary prize.

References
  1. Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group document
  2. Kafila essay


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