Premendra Mitra was born on 4 September 1904 in Varanasi, United Provinces, British India (now in Uttar Pradesh, India). He was an Indian poet, writer, and film director in the Bengali language.He was a student of South Suburban School (Main) and enrolled for a BA at the Scottish Church College in Calcutta which he left prematurely to study agriculture in Santiniketan with a friend of Rabindranath Tagore, Leonard Elmhirst.His critique of humanity led him to believe that for it to survive, human beings had to "forget their differences and be united".
