Adwaita Mallabarman

Adwaita Mallabarman (alternative spelling Advaita Mallabarmana) was a Bengali Indian writer. He is mostly known for his novel Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titash) published in the monthly Mohammadi five years after his death. Mallabarman was born  on 1 January 1914 in a Malo family in Gokarnoghat village beside the Titash River, near Brahmanbaria town in, Comilla Districtof undivided Bengal .

Throughout his teen years he wrote prodigiously, mostly poetry, and published in student magazines. Those early writings were highly acclaimed, so much so that peers who aspired to be writers sought his opinion on their work before sending it to a publisher. In 1950, Mallabarman was diagnosed with tuberculosis. he had felt increasingly unwell for two years.