Amiya Chakravarty

Amiya Chakravarty
Born	Amiya Chandra Chakravarty (1901-04-10)10 April 1901 Serampore, British Raj (now India)
Died	12 June 1986 Santiniketan, West Bengal, India

Amiya Chandra Chakravarty (1901–1986) was an Indian literary critic, academic, and Bengali poet. He was a close associate of Rabindranath Tagore, and edited several books of his poetry. He was also an associate of Gandhi, and an expert on the American catholic writer and monk, Thomas Merton. Chakravarty was honoured for his own poetry with the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963. He taught literature and comparative religion in India for nearly a decade and then for more than two decades at universities in England and the U.S. In 1970, he was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Bhushan award.^[1]