Sagarmoy Ghosh

{{Short description|Indian Bengali author and editor (1912–1999)}}

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| birth_place = Chadpur, Bengal Presidency, British India

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Sagarmoy Ghosh (22 June 1912 – 19 February 1999) was an author and renowned editor of Bengali literary journal Desh.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/mar/18/guardianobituaries1 |title=Sagarmoy Ghosh obituary |first=Shrabani |last=Basu |date=18 March 1999 | newspaper=The Guardian | access-date=22 July 2018 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319084512/https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/mar/18/guardianobituaries1 |archivedate=2018-03-19 }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YCghDtjik3IC&q=Sagarmoy+Ghosh+died&pg=PA140|title=Alternative Modernities|first=Dilip Parameshwar | last=Gaonkar|year=2001|isbn=0822327147|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320115840/https://books.google.com/books?id=YCghDtjik3IC&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=Sagarmoy+Ghosh+died&source=bl&ots=bpi9K0HZhe&sig=LRUd6-dJSMSiipfdZpTEsFj3i9A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZ4YDoj_bZAhWKQI8KHRY-AcsQ6AEIYTAI#v=onepage&q=Sagarmoy%20Ghosh%20died&f=false|archive-date=2018-03-20|url-status=live|access-date=18 March 2018}}

Early life

Ghosh was born in Chandipur village, Comilla, in British India, His father Kalimohan Ghosh and elder brother famous singer Santidev Ghosh were closely associated with Rabindranath Tagore. Ghosh was interested in music and literature since childhood and completed his study from the school of Shantiniketan. He passed B.A from Calcutta University. In 1932, he participated in the Non-cooperation movement and was imprisoned by the police.

Career

In jail he met with Ashok Kumar Sarkar, well known editor of Ananda Bazar Patrika and joined in Anandabazar group. He became the assistant editor of Desh in 1939. Ghosh's task was to pick up young and promising writers for the magazine. He became the editor of the magazine in 1976 and for more than 5 decades he was with Ananadabazar and it's literary wings and made it an institution amongst Bengalis.{{Cite web|url=http://www.anandabazar.com/supplementary/patrika/some-unknown-facts-about-sagarmoy-ghosh-1.724467|title=Ami To Stage Er Malik|language=bn|website=anandabazar.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319005558/http://www.anandabazar.com/supplementary/patrika/some-unknown-facts-about-sagarmoy-ghosh-1.724467|archive-date=2018-03-19|url-status=live|access-date=18 March 2018}} A number of literary figures of Bengal contributed to the Desh magazine in his editorship. Ghosh's notable works are: Ekti Perekere Kahini, Sampadoker Boithake, Dandyakaranyar Bagh and Hirer Nakchhabi.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E7YadsNfe3QC&q=Sagarmoy+Ghosh&pg=PT725|title=Manik and I: My Life with Satyajit Ray|last=Ray|first=Bijoya|date=August 2012|isbn=9788184757507|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320115847/https://books.google.com/books?id=E7YadsNfe3QC&pg=PT725&lpg=PT725&dq=Sagarmoy+Ghosh&source=bl&ots=QAPTxLiF05&sig=WCv5fHwlaNLgm3iJOCbTCI6mim4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_tsP9jfbZAhUFrI8KHYdYAK04HhDoAQhQMAk#v=onepage&q=Sagarmoy%20Ghosh&f=false|archive-date=2018-03-20|url-status=live|access-date=18 March 2018}}

Awards

In 1986 he was awarded Viswa Bharati University's highest honour Deshikottam. Ghosh received Calcutta University's first Narayan Gangopadhyay award for his book Ekti Pereker Kahini. In 1984 he received Ananda Puraskar along with Sukumar Sen and Bimal Mitra.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abp.in/|title=Ananda Purashkar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211015654/https://www.abp.in/|archive-date=2018-02-11|url-status=live|access-date=18 March 2018}}