Taradas Bandyopadhyay should not be confused with Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay.
| Taradas Bandyopadhyay | |
| Native Name: | তারাদাস বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় |
| Birth Date: | 15 October 1947 |
| Death Date: | 18 July 2010 (aged 63) |
| Occupation: | Short story writer, Novelist |
| Language: | Bengali |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Death Place: | Barrackpore, Kolkata North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India |
| Alma Mater: | Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home High School Maulana Azad College University of Calcutta |
| Birth Place: | Barrackpore, Calcutta, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India |
Taradas Bandyopadhyay (15 October 1947 – 18 July 2010) was a Bengali novelist, short story writer and editor.
Bandyopadhyay was the son of late legendary writer Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay.[1] [2] He was born in 1947 at his maternal grandparent's home at Barrackpore, a suburb of Kolkata in North 24 Parganas and finished his schooling at the Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home High School in Rahara. Bandyopadhyay passed B.A. (Honours) in English from Maulana Azad College and completed post-graduation from the Calcutta University. He worked in West Bengal government in the Information and Cultural Affairs Department.[3] He spent his childhood at his paternal village-home in Bongaon in a place which was incidentally called Barakpur again.
Taradas wrote number of short stories and novels like Kaal Nirabadhi, Saptarshir Alo, Kakkhopath. His novel Kajol was a sequel to Aparajito, written by his father.[4] Taradas had started writing Kajol immediately after passing his Higher Secondary examination. Bandyopadhyay's most notable contribution was Taranath Tantrik, an occult practitioner. The character was created by Bibhutibhushan and continued by him. Those stories were published in two books namely Taranath Tantrik (1985) and Awlatchokro (2003). Bandyopadhyay also edited Aranyak.[5] In the year 2008, Taradas started writing his interpretation of Bibhutibhusan's life in a biography-styled series called Pita Nohsi for Udbodhan magazine, but couldn't complete it because of his death in 2010.