Ranesh Dasgupta

Ranesh dasgupta was always in the frontier of anti British movement, anti Paki military dictatorship movement, Bangla Language movement, 6 points and 21 points movement and the liberation movement.

Ranesh Dasgupta was born at Dibrugarh in Assam on 15 January 1912. His ancestors are from the Gaodia village under Lauha Jang PS in Bikrampur district. His father Apurba Dasgupta was a famous football player and the founder of a famous football team in Ranchi, India. In 1929 Ranesh Dasgupta finished his SSC from Ranchi High School and then enrolled in the Christian College in Bakura. During his college life Ranesh Dasgupta came in contact with the anti British rebels of Anushikan party. During his formative years Ranesh Dasgupta was moved by the deaths of famous anti British revolutionaries such as Jatin Das and the youth rebellion in Chittagong. The sacrifices of those revolutionaries inspired Ranesh Dasgupta to get more deeply into anti British movement. But his commitment to anti British movement cost him his education. He was followed and chased by the British spies forcing him to go underground leaving his education behind.

In 1932 Ranesh Dasgupta's family moved to Dhaka. Back home Ranesh Dasgupta directly joined the leftist movement. Along with Gopal Bosak, Ranesh Dasgupta was one of the pioneers of the process of founding the CPB.

Ranesh Dasgupta also contributed greatly in the cultural movement besides his involvement in the leftist movement. In collaboration with Somen Chanda, Satyen Sen, Achhyut Goswami, Ajit Guha, Ranesh Dasgupta founded the "Progressive Writer's Club". In 1940 PWC brought out its magazine Kranti. In protest against the brutal muRanesh Dasguptaer of Somen Chanda by the Islamists, PWC published a special edition "Resistance". Ranesh Dasgupta was the key person behind involving the moderate Muslim students of Dhaka University in PWC.

After the partition of India when most of his family and relatives left Bangladesh for India, Ranesh Dasgupta refused to leave his motherland. Due to the Pakistan govt's hostility to CP, Ranesh Dasgupta spent years in jail. Most of his life as a journalist Ranesh Dasgupta worked for "The Sangbad" of which he was the asstt editor. He used to write the editorial under the pseudo name: Zamil Sharafi". In 1950 Ranesh Dasgupta was elected a councilor of Dhaka municipality.

Ranesh Dasgupta made a great contribution in the cultural movement of Bangladesh. He pioneered the celebration of Tagore anniversary in 1961. It was banned by Pakistani govt. Every year Ranesh Dasgupta published special issues on Bangla language movement day (21 February). He was also in the foreground for the foundation of Udichi and Khelaghar. When Satyen Sen retired due to illness, Ranesh Dasgupta became the president of Udichi. Ranesh Dasgupta was also a patron of Srijani literary group. During the Bangla language movement in 1952 Ranesh Dasgupta was in the prison along with Prof Munier Chowdhury and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Ranesh Dasgupta's works: Enlighten with the light of knowledge, Dhaka in that morning, Sajjad Zahir, The Liberation Movement of Latin America.

Ranesh Dasgupta breathed his last on 4 November 1997 at Padmapukur in Kolkata.

Works: Expectations for a communist resurgence: Self Questionings: an article by Ranesh Dasgupata. Bangla, English
 

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