Subodh Ghosh was born on 14 September 1909, in Hazaribagh now in Jharkhand. He was a noted Indian author of Bengali literature and a journalist with the Kolkata-based daily newspaper Ananda Bazar Patrika.
He studied at St. Columba’s College as well as privately with scholar Mahesh Chandra Ghosh. At the beginning of his career, he worked as a bus conductor to support himself while writing on the side. His best-known work, Bharat Premkatha, is about the romances of epic Indian characters and has remained very popular in the Bengali literary world.
He won the Filmfare Award for Best Story twice, for Bimal Roy’s Sujata (1960) and for Gulzar’s Ijaazat in 1989. He was selected for Bharatya Jnanpith Award (1977) But he refused it.
