Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

Bibhutibhushan Bandyo-padhyay was an Indian Bengali author and one of the leading writers of modern Bengali literature. His best known work is the autobiographical novel Pather Panchali (The Song of the Road).

The 1951 Rabindra Puraskar, the most prestigious literary award in West Bengal, was posthumously awarded to Bibhutibhushan for his novel Ichhamati . The writer studied at Bongaon High School, one of the oldest institutions in British India and was considered a consistently talented student.

Bibhutibhushan completed his undergraduate degree with Economics, History and Sanskrit at the Surendranath College (then Ripon College), Kolkata.

He was admitted to the master's degree (MA) and Law classes, but could not afford to enroll for the postgraduate course at the University of Calcutta and joined teaching profession in a school at Jangipara, Hooghly. He died on 1 November 1950, with the cause of death identified as a heart attack.