Satikanta Guha

Satikanta Guha was born in Sunamganj, Sylhet (now in Bangladesh on June 1, 1910. He was educated at Dhaka Collegiate School,Dhaka and Hare School and Presidency College.He came First in First Class in the LLB Examination. From childhood, he had a special love for Literature. From the age of 15, he started editing journals for children named 'Benu' and 'Chitra'. He also edited the magazine 'Rangmashal'. He founded various publishing houses. He published books like Abanindranath Thakur's Rajkahini and Dakshinaranjan's 'First Boy and Last Boy'and also Shibram Chakraborty's 'Baadi Thekey Paliye'. He founded the South Point School in 1954, a famous school located in the Ballygunge area of Kolkata. His wife Prity Lata Guha continued to manage the school after his death. He has received numerous awards for Literature such as the Mouchak Award for children's literature and the Rabindra Puraskar for his novel 'Natyakar'. He died on January 8, 1991.