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Bijon Bhattacharya was an Indian theatre and film actor from West Bengal. He was an eminent playwright and dramatist. Bhattacharya was born in 1915 at Faridpur (now in Bangladesh) and was an early witness to the destitution and penury of the peasantry of that land. He became a member of the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA). Some of his dramas include Nabanna, Agun, Kalanka and Jabanbandi.
Nabanna is a Bangla drama written by Bijon Bhattacharya and staged by the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) in 1944 under the direction of Bijon Bhattacharya and Sombhu Mitra and later, in 1948, by Bohurupee under the direction of Kumar Roy. The play is about the Bengal famine of 1943, in which more than 2 million people died of starvation, malnutrition and disease. and presents the miseries of the poor villagers of Aminpur. The main character is Pradhan Samaddar, a peasant in Bengal. The play presents the intensity of famine through the starvation of Pradhan Samaddar's family.
It was translated from Bengali to English by Arjun Ghosh.