Chandril Bhattacharya

Chandril Bhattacharya is a popular Bengali Essayist, lyricist, poet, orator, and director from Kolkata.

He completed his schooling at Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur. He credited his alma mater for the nourishment of his cultural side. He earned an undergraduate degree in economics as a student at Bidhannagar College and subsequently pursued an MSc degree in economics from the University of Calcutta.

Chandril Bhattacharya formerly wrote the monthly column “Uttam Madhyam” for Anandabazar Patrika, contributing to occasional op-eds and Cover stories for Sunday Supplement in the same newspaper.

He coins peculiar idioms, playful jargon, and Spoonerisms and reconstructs colloquial Bengali phrases and expressions to formulate absurdist, humorous puns in most of his articles.