Ishwar Chandra Gupta

Ishwar Chandra Gupta was a famous Indian Bengali poet and writer . Gupta was born in Kanchrapara, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. He started the newspaper Sambad Prabhakar with Jogendra Mohan Tagore on January 28, 1831, which finally became a daily on June 4, 1839. Many Bengali writers of the 19th century started their careers with that magazine.

He reintroduced into Bengali poetry the mediaeval style with double meaning (already seen in Sandhyakaranandi and Bharatchandra) . He brought modern era of poetry in Bengali. He did not describe the life of Gods and Goddesses, but the daily life of human beings.

He also wrote biographies of many Bengali poets and musicians. Ishwarchandra  Gupta always satires the so-called modern class who blindly followed the colonial British power. He died on 23 January 1859 in Kolkata, India.