Bijon Bhattacharya
Bijon Bhattacharya () (17 July 1906 – 19 January 1978) was an Indian theatre and film actor from West Bengal.He was an eminent playwright and dramatist. Bhattacharya was born in 1906 at Faridpur (now in Bangladesh) to a Hindu, Bengali Brahmin family, and was an early witness to the destitution and penury of the peasantry of that land. He became a member of the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA). Personal life. Bijon Bhattacharya married the Jnanpith Award-winning Bengali writer, Mahasweta Devi. Their only son Nabarun Bhattacharya, a Bengali writer, was born in 1948. External links. ] Bijon Bhattacharya