Saturday, 27 June 2015

27-JUNE-1938 :- Birth Of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay , India Writer , Composer Of Indian National Song.

Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay 
(26 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was a Bengali writer, poet and journalist. He was the composer of India's national song Vande Mataram, originally a Bengali and Sanskrit stotra personifying India as a mother goddess and inspiring the activists during the Indian Independence Movement. Chattopadhyay wrote 13 novels and several 'serious, serio-comic, satirical, scientific and critical treaties' in Bengali. His works were widely translated into other regional languages of India as well as in English.

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