Akshay Kumar Baral

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Akshay Kumar Baral
Akshay Kumar Boral.jpg
Born1860 (1860)
DiedJune 19, 1919(1919-06-19) (aged 58–59)
Nationality Indian
OccupationPoet
Relatives Amal Dutta (grandson) [1] [2]

Akshay Kumar Baral (Bengali : অক্ষয় কুমার বড়াল; 1860–1919) was an Indian Bengali language poet and writer. He was born in Calcutta. [3] The family originally hailed from Chandannagar, Hooghly District. [4]

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Early life

Baral was born in 1860 in Chorbagan, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. He studied at Hare School for some time. He worked as an accounts clerk in the Delhi and London Bank. He worked as a secretary at the North-British Life Insurance Company. [3] [5]

Career

Boral was a fan of poet Biharilal Chakraborty. [3] Sisir Kumar Das described Boral's poetry as meditative and thoughtful. [6] According to Narayan Choudhuri, he wrote some of the best examples of elegiac poems in Indian literature. [7]

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References

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