| Suniti Kumar Ghosh | |
| Native Name: | সুনীতি কুমার ঘোষ |
| Native Name Lang: | bn |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Party: | Communist Party of India
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| Term End1: | 1 |
| Birth Date: | 1918 |
| Birth Place: | Shibpur, Howrah district, Bengal Presidency, British Raj |
| Source: | https://www.cpiml.net/liberation/2014/06/comrade-suniti-kumar-ghosh |
Suniti Kumar Ghosh(Bengali: সুনীতি কুমার ঘোষ;1918 – 11 May 2014) was an Indian Marxist-Leninist revolutionary, writer, and editor. He was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) and the founding editor of its central organ, Liberation.[1] [2]
Suniti Kumar Ghosh was born in Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal. He graduated from Ripon College in Kolkata and earned a master's degree in English from the University of Calcutta. He began his career as a teacher at Dinajpur College (now in Bangladesh), where he became closely associated with the Tebhaga struggle in 1946-47 and joined the Communist Party of India (CPI).[3]
In 1949, Ghosh was externed from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and settled in Calcutta. He worked as a lecturer in English at Vidyasagar College, Kolkata. After the formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)], he became an important organizer of the party's lecturers’ cell. Ghosh, known as Comrade SKG within the party, fully immersed himself in revolutionary political activities during the Naxalbari uprising.[4]
Ghosh was a member of the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (AICCCR) and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) [CPI(ML)] from their inception. Under his editorship, Liberation began publication in November 1967, becoming the organ of AICCCR in May 1968 and later the central organ of CPI(ML) from April 1969. Liberation played a crucial role in revolutionary journalism and party building during this period.
After the revolutionary communist movement faced setbacks around 1972, Ghosh focused on writing books and articles with revolutionary fervor and theoretical rigor. His notable works include:
He also edited The Historic Turning Point: A Liberation Anthology (in two volumes) and wrote several books in Bengali, such as Bharater Communist Party (Marxbadi) – Ekti Mulyayan and Phire Dekha.[8] His last major work, Naxalbari: Before and After, Reminiscences and Appraisal, was published in 2009.[9]
Suniti Kumar Ghosh continued his intellectual and revolutionary work until the age of 92. His unwavering revolutionary zeal and contributions to Marxist theory and practice remain a source of inspiration. He passed away in Asansol, West Bengal on 11 May 2014, at the age of 96.