Description
This passage provides a brief biographical sketch of Shyamal Chakraborty. He was born in Kashi, though his ancestral home was in Agradakunda village of undivided Nadia district. He received his education in Kashi and Patna, and spent his entire professional career in the Language Department of the Bihar Government. Highly skilled in Hindi, he regularly broadcast his own Hindi plays on All India Radio, Patna. He also served as the president of the once?famous theatre group Chaturanga for ten years and held important positions in cultural organizations such as the Bihar Bengali Association and the Bihar Rabindra Parishad.

