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Literature
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
माइकल मधुसूदन दत्त
- Born
- 25 January 1824
- Birthplace
- Sagardari, Jessore, now Bangladesh
- Died
- 29 June 1873
- Field
- Literature
Father of the Bengali sonnet and of blank verse in Bengali; his epic Meghnad Badh Kavya is a landmark of the Bengal Renaissance.
Also born on 25 January: Ashwini Kumar Dutta
