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Mohitlal Majumdar
Mohitlal Majumdar () (26 October 1888 – 26 July 1952), a renowned Bengali author, was born at Kanchrapara village in Nadia district, India. Mohitlal started as a poet, but later became better known as a literary critic.
Life.
Majumder, Mohitlal (1888-1952) poet, essayist and literary critic, was born in a Baidya family on 26 October 1888 in the village of Kanchrapara in Nadia district. He graduated in arts in 1908 from Ripon College (now Surendranath College
His barbed comments on the romantic poets of the time and remarks on God, almost always satirical and sometimes irreverent earned him the label of an atheist and a pessimist. Scholars generally agree that the trio of Jatindranath Sengupta, Mohitlal Majumdar and Kazi Nazrul Islam heralded modernism in Bengali poetry. Both in form and content whether in his remarkably seamless juxtaposition of rustic expressions alongside richly Sankritized words or in metrical forms or in his perceived atheism, he left a strong influence on the immediate group of distinguished modern poets. From Sayam (dusk