Nimai Bhattacharya

Nimai Bhattacharya is a writer of Bengali Literature who was born in 10 April 1931 in Magura's Shalikha.

He had lost his mother when he was three years old. He had passed Matriculation in 1948. After India Partition, he moved to West Bengal from East Bengal. Then he had passed IA and BA from Ripon College, Calcutta.

He had started his career in journalism. A novel which was written by him was published in Amritobazar in 1963. His next four novels were published in the newspaper.After that, he had taken his profession as writing.

He had written more than 150 books. But his most notable work is Memsaheb. A film was made based on the book named Mem Saheb where Uttam Kumar and Aparna Sen in main roles. Some of his notable books are:

• Memsaheb
• Minibus
• Matal
• Inquilab
• Bachelor
• Kerani
• Rajdhani Express
• Anglo Indian
• Darling
• Your Honour
• Cocktail
• Pother Sheshe