Akshay Kumar Baral Explained

Akshay Kumar Baral
Birth Date:	1860
Birth Place:	Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Death Place:	Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Nationality:	Indian
Occupation:	Poet
Relatives:	Amal Dutta (grandson)^[1] ^[2]

Akshay Kumar Baral (Bengali: অক্ষয় কুমার বড়াল; 1860–1919) was an Indian Bengali language poet and writer. He was born in Calcutta.^[3] The family originally hailed from Chandannagar, Hooghly District.^[4]

Early life

Baral was born in 1860 in Chorbagan, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. He studied at Hare School 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.^{[3] [5]}

Career

Boral was a fan of poet Biharilal Chakraborty.^[3] Sisir Kumar Das described Boral's poetry as meditative and thoughtful.^[6] According to Narayan Choudhuri, he wrote some of the best examples of elegiac poems in Indian literature.^[7]

Bibliography

Plays

• Prodip (1884)
• Kanakanjoli (1885)
• Shankha (1910)
• Esha (1912)
• Vul
• Chandidas (1917)^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: মুছে গেল হীরকের দ্যুতি. eisamay.com. Ei Samay Newspaper. Kolkata. The light of the diamond disappeared. 11 July 2016. 28 November 2023. bn. https://web.archive.org/web/20231230035839/https://eisamay.com/sports/football/news/-/articleshow/53151338.cms. 30 December 2023.
2. Web site: Amal Dutta (1930—2016): the Indian football coach whom players swore by and swore at. 12 July 2016. 26 November 2022. Atanu. Mitra. Kolkata. 10 October 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221010193003/https://scroll.in/field/811601/amal-dutta-1930-2016-the-indian-football-coach-whom-players-swore-by-and-swore-at. Scroll.in.
3. Web site: Ghosh . Biswajit . Baral, Akshay Kumar . Banglapedia . 6 July 2020.
4. Subarnabanik Katha O Kirti (vol.1), Laha, Narendranath, Calcutta Oriental Press, Calcutta, 1940, p 80
5. Book: Anjali Basu . Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta . Subodh Chandra Sengupta . bn:সংসদ বাঙালি চরিতাভিধান . https://books.google.com/books?id=Cg5XAAAAMAAJ . 1976 . Sahitya Samsad . Samsad Bengali Biographical Dictionary . bn.
6. Book: Das, Sisir Kumar . Sisir Kumar Das . History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy . 2005 . Sahitya Akademi . 538 . 978-81-7201-798-9 . en.
7. Book: Datta, Amaresh . Amaresh Datta . Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti . 1988 . Sahitya Akademi . 1146 . 978-81-260-1194-0 . en.
8. Book: Akshaykumar Baral . Akshaykumar Baral Granthaboli . bn:অক্ষয়কুমার বড়াল গ্রন্থাবলি . 1957 .