| Dipendranath Bandyopadhyay | |
| Birth Date: | 1936 11, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Dhaka, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Death Place: | Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
| Occupation: | Poet, writer, political activist |
| Language: | Bengali |
| Nationality: | British Indian (1936–1947) Indian (1947–1979) |
| Alma Mater: | Presidency College, Kolkata Scottish Church College University of Calcutta |
| Genre: | Novel, short stories, journalism, criticism |
| Spouse: | Chinmoyee Bandyopadhyay |
Dipendranath Bandyopadhyay (1936–1979)[1] was a Bengali writer, editor, correspondent and political activist. He reshaped Bengali prose writing in late 1950 to 1970, with his deft portrayal of love, protest and anger in post-independence Bengali milieu. Associated with left political activities as student, active member of the Bengal Provincial Student Federation (BPSF), the provincial branch of All India Students Federation (AISF) Dipendratnath was a narrator of the turbulent socio-political vortex of his time. He wrote 51 short stories, 5 novels - including one unfinished - and significant number of reportage or newspaper articles, during his short-lived creative period. Specially his reportages were popular in Bengali readers. Increased political and organisational activity reduced his literary activity which decreased to a trickle in his twilight years.
Bandyopadhyay was posthumously awarded a Friends of Liberation War Honour, the third-highest state award given by the government of Bangladesh for foreigners or non-nationals.[2]
He was an editor of the Bengali periodical - Porichoy - for a brief period. The first issue of Porichoy was published in 1931. From 1931 to 1936 Porichoy was a quarterly. From 1936 onwards Porichoy became a monthly. Rabindranath Tagore wrote a letter of appreciation to the editor which was printed in the second issue of Porichoy. The liberal Sudhindranath Dutta allowed the control of Porichoy to pass on to 'Anti Fascist Writers Association' in 1944. The editorial policy took a radical left shift with increased control of card holders and sympathizers of Communist Party of India. However, Porichoy always acknowledged its intellectual debt to Sudhindranath Dutta and even as late as 2001 there was a special issue to commemorate the poet's birth centenary.