Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Bengali: শীর্ষেন্দু মুখোপাধ্যায়; born 2 November 1935) is a Bengali author from India. He has written stories for both adults and children

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay was born in Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh) on 2 November 1935 and lived there up to age ten. During partition, his family migrated to Kolkata. He spent his childhood in Bihar and many places in Bengal and Assam accompanying his father, who worked in the railways. He passed intermediate from the Victoria College, Koch Bihar before taking a Masters in Bengali from Calcutta University.

Mukhopadhyay started his career as a school teacher.

Spiritually, Mukhopadhyay is heavily influenced by the Hindu sub-sect of Thakur Anukulchandra. Many of his books are dedicated with a salutation ‘Ra-Swa’. Ra-Swa stands for Radha Swami (this is a standard salutation for followers of Anukul-Thakur).

“Jol torongo” was his first story published in the magazine “Desh” in 1959. After 7/8 years of writing story, “Ghunpoka” was his first novel published in the annual Puja edition of the magazine Desh. His first children’s novel was called Manojder Adbhut Baari.

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