I lived from 1916-1987. I was from India, and am in the Asian category.
Samar Sen (Bangla) was a Bengali poet and journalist. He hailed from an illustrious family, many of whose scions have enriched the intellectual world of Bengal. His grandfather, Dinesh Chandra Sen, was a well-known writer and a doyen of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad. His father, Arun Sen, an academician of repute, had allegedly remarked, "I am a mediocre son of a genius father and a mediocre father of a genius son!" Samar Sen, along with Subhash Mukhopadhyay, belonged to the second generation of modern Bengali poets, to whom the torch was passed from such stalwarts as Jibananda Das, Bishnu Dey, Sudhindranath Dutta and others. However, he gave up poetry fairly early and devoted the better part of his later life to Marxism and journalism. He was the editor of the leftist newspaper Frontier published from Kolkata, which was banned during the notorious period of Indian Emergency (1975 -1977) declared by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi.
My poetry
- I go out in the grey evening
In the air the odor of flowers and the sounds of lamentation.14 lines
