Kumud Ranjan Mullick was a Bengal

Bengal

Bengal is a historical and geographical region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. Today, it is mainly divided between the sovereign land of People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, although some regions of the previous...

i writer and poet; one of the most eminent poets of the Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...

 era of Bengali literature. He was an early mentor and coach to the famous poet Kazi Nazrul Islam

Kazi Nazrul Islam

Kazi Nazrul Islam , sobriquet Bidrohi Kobi, was a Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against fascism and oppression. His poetry and nationalist activism earned him the popular title of Bidrohi Kobi...

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Biography

He was born on March 3, 1883 in a village named Kogram in Burdwan district of West Bengal

West Bengal

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, India.

He graduated from the University of Calcutta

University of Calcutta

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 in 1905 and won the prestigious Bankimchandra Gold Medal. He started his teaching career at Mathrun High School in Burdwan where he later became the Headmaster.

Kumud Ranjan's poetry was greatly influenced by Vaishnavism

Vaishnavism

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. His poetry is also a portrait of rural Bengal. He died on 14 December 1970.

Main Works

• Shatadal
• Bantulsi
• Ujani
• Ektara
• Bithi
• Banamallika
• Rajanigandha
• Nupur
• Chunkali
• Tunir
• Ajay
• Swarna Sandhya
• Dwarabati
• Kuheli
• Mukhoser Dokan

One memorable music album named Kumud Kabya Geeti was released by the then Gramophone Co. of India, comprising some of his poems like 'Ajayer buke saradin', 'Ruper laagi jodi amaare bhalobasho', 'Jhapsa hoye aaschhe kromey', 'Latar bedona' & many more beautiful poems set to music by famous Bengali musical icons like Hemanta Mukherjee, Anup Ghoshal

Anup Ghoshal

Anup Ghoshal , is a singer in Hindi films and other vernacular Indian films, especially Bengali language films. He won the West Bengal Assembly elections of 2011 on a Trinamool Congress ticket from the Uttarpara in Hooghly district, defeating his nearest rival by a large margin of 40, 000...

, Haimanti Shukla, Tarun Banerjee and many more.

One of his students,at the Mathrun Navinchandra Vidyalay, Burdwan where Kumud Ranjan was the Headmaster,later rose to become Bengal's best known Rebel poet, Kazi Najrul Islam.

Awards

• Jagattarini Gold Medal
• Padmashree