Kamakhkhi Prasad Chattopadhyay was born on 27 March 1917. He was an Indian poet. His father Basanta Kumar Chattopadhyay served as the first auditor general of independent India.
He passed his BA exam and was awarded ‘Bankim puroshkar’ for being first in the BA exam.
He works as the assistant of Sudhindra Nath Dutta in the Damodar Valley corporation. He spent most of his job life in Mumbai, Delhi, and Moscow. He stayed in Moscow for 3 years. During his Moscow life, he translated Russian books into Bengali. He was a photographer also. He was the editor of the children’s magazine Rangmashal.
