Sankha Ghosh was born on 5 February 1932, in Chandpur District of the Then Bengal Presidency, present-day Bangladesh. He was an Indian poet and literary critic.
He passed matriculation from Chandraprabha Vidyapitha, Pabna. He got his undergraduate degree in Arts in Bengali from Presidency College, Kolkata in 1951 and subsequently his master’s degree from the University of Calcutta in the year 1954.
He made an immense contribution to the world of Bengali poetry. ‘Days and Nights’, ‘Babar’s Prayer’, ‘Face Covered in Advertisement’, and ‘And Gandharva Poems’ are his notable books of poetry.
The people of the lower classes, the poor can get the poetry of Shankha Ghosh as a companion to their daily suffering. He identifies every inequality in society and every lack of justice with his infallible poems.
