Taradas Bandyopadhyay

{{Infobox writer

| name = Taradas Bandyopadhyay

| native_name = তারাদাস বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়

| birth_date = 15 October 1947

| death_date = 18 July 2010 (aged 63)

| occupation = Short story writer, Novelist

| language = Bengali

| nationality = Indian

| image = Taradas Bandyopadhyay.jpg

| death_place = Barrackpore, Kolkata North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India

| alma_mater = Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home High School
Maulana Azad College
University of Calcutta

| birth_place = Barrackpore, Calcutta, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India

}}

Taradas Bandyopadhyay (15 October 1947 – 18 July 2010) was a Bengali novelist, short story writer and editor.

Biography

Bandyopadhyay was the son of late legendary writer Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay.{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Writers-angry-at-being-cheated-by-publishers/articleshow/469248.cms|title=Writers angry at being 'cheated' by publishers|newspaper=The Times of India|date=2 February 2004|access-date=2 January 2019|archive-date=7 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107232534/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Writers-angry-at-being-cheated-by-publishers/articleshow/469248.cms|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/jharkhand/museum-plans-for-literary-icon-abode/cid/738745|title=Museum plans for literary icon abode|access-date=2 January 2019|archive-date=16 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230916152800/https://www.telegraphindia.com/jharkhand/museum-plans-for-literary-icon-abode/cid/738745|url-status=live}} He was born in 1947 at his maternal grandparent's home at Barrackpore, a suburb of Kolkata in North 24 Parganas and finished his schooling at the Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Boys' Home High School in Rahara. Bandyopadhyay passed B.A. (Honours) in English from Maulana Azad College and completed post-graduation from the Calcutta University. He worked in West Bengal government in the Information and Cultural Affairs Department.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/news/report/bengali-writer-taradas-bandopadhyay-passes-away/20100718.htm|title=West Bengal: Writer Taradas Bandyopadhyay passes away|access-date=2 January 2019|archive-date=15 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115001441/https://www.rediff.com/news/report/bengali-writer-taradas-bandopadhyay-passes-away/20100718.htm|url-status=live}} He spent his childhood at his paternal village-home in Bongaon in a place which was incidentally called Barakpur again.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}

Literary career

Taradas wrote number of short stories and novels like Kaal Nirabadhi, Saptarshir Alo, Kakkhopath. His novel Kajol was a sequel to Aparajito, written by his father.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.266882|title=Kajal|last=Bandyopadhyay, Taradas|access-date=2 January 2019}} Taradas had started writing Kajol immediately after passing his Higher Secondary examination. Bandyopadhyay's most notable contribution was Taranath Tantrik, an occult practitioner. The character was created by Bibhutibhushan and continued by him. Those stories were published in two books namely Taranath Tantrik (1985){{Citation|last=তারাদাস বন্দোপাধ্যায়|title=তারানাথ তান্ত্রিক|url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3I9BqS3az5wakVtX0RPYUZWN00/edit?pli=1|access-date=2 January 2019|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924043533/https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3I9BqS3az5wakVtX0RPYUZWN00/edit?pli=1|url-status=live}} and Awlatchokro (2003). Bandyopadhyay also edited Aranyak.{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/real-address-for-fictional-tantric/cid/1390348|title=Real address for fictional tantric|website=telegraphindia.com|access-date=2 January 2019|archive-date=27 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127111411/https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/real-address-for-fictional-tantric/cid/1390348|url-status=live}} In the year 2008, Taradas started writing his interpretation of Bibhutibhusan's life in a biography-styled series called Pita Nohsi for Udbodhan magazine, but couldn't complete it because of his death in 2010.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}