Shibram chakraborty biography

Shibram Chakraborty (–) was an Indian writer and humorist. His best known short stories and novels are renowned for their unique use of pun, alliteration, play of words and ironic humour.^[2] He was a prolific author who also wrote poems, plays, non-fiction and novels for mature audiences in his long career.^[3]

Personal life

Chakraborty was born into the well-known Chanchal Rajbari (royal house of Chanchal) family, although his ancestral home was in Malda.

However the ancestral seat of the Chakrabarty family was at Choa in Murshidabad District.^[4] He was born at his maternal uncle's house at Nayan Chand Dutta Street, Darjipara in Kolkata, the capital of British India.^[5] His father was Shibprashad Chakrabarty.

A spiritualist by nature, Shibprashad would often speak of the road. Shibram inherited his wanderlust from his father.^[3]

In school, he played an active role in the Swadeshi movement (part of the st