Chakreshwar Bhattacharyya

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Chakreshwar Bhattacharyya or Bhattacharya (March 1918-April 1969) was a litterateur from Assam, India.
Early life
Bhattacharyya was born in March 1918 in the Kamrup district of Assam, the first child of a lower middle-class Brahmin family. He attended Cotton Collegiate High School, followed by Cotton College, Gauhati, graduating in 1940. He then obtained a Master's degree from Calcutta University in 1942. Bhattacharyya was a follower of Marxist ideology and Gandhian philosophy and was an active participant in the Indian nationalist movement.
Career
Bhattacharyya returned to Assam and from 1943-1946 worked as a joint editor of the journal Jayanti, launched in 1938 by Raghunath Choudhary. Bhattacharyya also wrote, in both Assamese and Hindi, in several genres: short stories (Suti Galpa), poems in prose/poems of literary composition (Katha Kabita), Prabandha (a literary genre of medieval Sanskrit literature), and biographies (including of Karmaveer Nabin Chandra Bordoloi, Mahatma Gandhi, Jatindra Nath Duwara, Raghunath Choudhary (1879-1967), and Bhabananda Dutta (1919-69), Madhav Dev). His writing was published in Posuya, Jayanti, and Dehli (the magazine of the Assamese students of Delhi). Bhattacharyya was, perhaps, the third Assamese literary scholar to contribute to Katha Kabita, after Jatindra Nath Duwara in 1933 and Nabamallika by Raghunath Choudhary, published in 1958. From 1946-1965, Bhattacharyya worked as an assistant news editor for the Assamese news at All India Radio, Delhi. In 1965, he was promoted to News Editor of All India Radio in Guwahati (Gauhati).
Bhattacharyya died suddenly in April 1969, due to cardiac arrest. Many of his writings, stored in a wooden almirah at his home, were destroyed in flash floods of Guwahati. However, some were rescued and later published in 2008 by his youngest brother, Professor Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya.

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