Dinesh Chandra Chattopadhyay was born on 27 January 1917. He was a Bengali writer and editor. Chattopadhyay was born in Paikara village, Jessore District in British India.
His father Abani Bhushan was a Mathematician and textbook author. After the Entrance Examination, he entered in St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. While studying in college he was attracted to the revolutionary movement under the guidance of Pulin Behari Das.
Chattopadhyay wrote and published a number of Bengali books of Children’s literature from his ancestral publishing house Bidyoday Library in Kolkata. He published Kishore Bharati Child Magazine since 1968.
In 1982, he established Patra Bharati, a publishing company. He sometimes used a pen name, Dinanath Kashyap.
