– 8 April 1894   Bôngkim Chôndro Chôţţopaddhae ) ('Chattopadhyay' in the original Bengali ; 'Chatterjee' as spelt by the British ) was an Indian Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalist, most famous as the author of Vande Mataram or Bande Mataram, that inspired the freedom fighters of India, and was