Samaresh Basu

Samaresh Basu was a Bengali writer and spent his early childhood in Bikrampur, Dhaka in present-day Bangladesh. He died on 12 March 1988. He was awarded the 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali, by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, for his novel, Shamba. 

He won the 1983 Filmfare Awards for Best Story for Namkeen. He would in later days recall the deep impressions that the Brata-kathas (fantastic folk-tales recited by women while performing certain religious rites) narrated by his mother left on him as a child. His adolescent years were spent in Naihati, a suburb of Kolkata, in West Bengal.

His life was rich with varied experiences. At one point, he used to hawk eggs from a basket carried on his head; later, he worked for meager daily wages. From 1943 through 1949 he worked in an ordnance factory in Ichhapore.