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Poet Subhas Mukhopadhyay dead
Kolkata, July 08: Eminent Bengali poet Subhas Mukhopadhyay died at a nursing home here this morning.
Kolkata, July 08: Eminent Bengali poet Subhas Mukhopadhyay died at a nursing home here this morning.
The poet, suffering from kidney and heart problems, was
admitted to the SSKM hospital on June 28 and shifted to the
nursing home only last evening, family sources said.
He was 84 and is survived by his wife Gita Bandyopadhyay,
who is also a poet, and three adopted daughters.
Mukhopadhyay won many awards including Sahitya Akademi
Award in 1964 and Gyanpith in 1991. He was conferred
'Desikottam' by the Viswa-Bharati University in 1993.
Bureau Report