Chharpatra Bengali edition

Sukanta Bhattacharya (15 August 1926 - 13 May 1947) was a Bengali poet and playwright. Prodigious Sukanta's poetry was published in magazines while he was alive, and except for Chharpatra his books were all published posthumously. His works are deeply marked and influenced by his communist experience. One of his shorter poems name "Hey Mahajibon" from the book Chharpatra compares the moon with a burnt roti, a prosaicness born of hunger.