| Mihir Sengupta | |
| Birth Date: | 1 September, 1946 |
| Birth Place: | Keora, Barisal, British India |
| Death Date: | 17 January, 2022 (Age 75) |
| Death Place: | Kolkata, India |
| Alma Mater: | Brojomohun College |
| Occupation: | Bank employee, writer |
| Notable Works: | Bisadbrikhho |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Awards: | Ananda Purashkar (2005) |
Mihir Sengupta (1946 – 17 January 2022) was an Indian writer of Bengali literature.
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]