Life
By profession, Jatindranath was an engineer. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1911 from the Shibpur Engineering College (now Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur) and started working as an overseer. However, he spent most of his time writing. Jatindranath Sengupta an eminently original poet in Bengali literature.
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“When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.”
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