Suranjan Samajpati

In the Ashes of Calcutta: The Forgotten Heroics of Suranjan and Niranjan Samajpati during Direct Action Day

Memoir of Those Seven Days By Suranjan Samajpati August 16, Evening The city was restless even before the first scream. Rumours thickened in the lanes of Kalighat like smoke — Direct Action Day, Suhrawardy’s speeches, mobs sharpening blades openly, constables melting away. By the time Niranjan and I left our cramped rented room, we knew …