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{{Infobox person
|image = DineshDasPic.jpg
|name = Dinesh Das
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1913|09|16}}
|birth_place = Chetla, [[Alipore]], [[24 Parganas]] (now [[South 24 Parganas District]]), [[Bengal]], [[British Indian Empire]] (now in [[West Bengal]])
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1985|3|13|1913|9|16}}
|death_place = Gopalnagar, [[Bangaon subdivision]], [[North 24 Parganas district]], [[India]]
}}

'''Dinesh Das''' (16 September 1913 – 13 March 1985) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] [[poet]].

He was born in his maternal home at Chetla in [[Alipore]], a locality on the bank of [[Adi Ganga]] creek. When he was in Class IX, at around 15 years age, he became involved in secret revolutionary [[Indian independence movement]]. He also became involved in [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]]'s Salt [[Satyagraha]] movement which hampered his formal education. However he passed Matriculation Examination in 1930, and I.A. in 1932 from the South Suburban College (now [[Asutosh College]]). In 1933, he was admitted to B.A. in [[Scottish Church College]]. In 1934, first poem "Sraboney" was published in ''[[Desh (magazine)|Desh]]''. However he could not complete his B.A. due to his revolutionary and literary activities. In 1935, he took a job at Khayerbari Tea Estate and moved to [[Kurseong]]. There he became disillusioned with [[Gandhism]] and on return to [[Calcutta]] next year, he became inspired by [[communism]] and read writings of [[Karl Marx]], [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Ralph Fox]].
In 1937, he created a stir with his poem '''Kaste''' (Sickle). He immortalized [[Kolkata]]'s Clive Street in one of his poems:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kolkataonwheelsmagazine.com/?module=article&content_id=6&article_id=102 |title=Archived copy |access-date=16 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402124152/http://www.kolkataonwheelsmagazine.com/?module=article&content_id=6&article_id=102 |archive-date=2 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Alok|first=Bardhan|title=Bangla Shikshak (For the class XII)|publisher=Chhaya Prakashani|year=2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=কবি দীনেশ দাস|url=https://www.bhorerkagoj.com/print-edition/2020/03/13/299325.php|access-date=2020-11-17|website=www.bhorerkagoj.com}}</ref>

<poem>Here, in a hundred snake-like veins,
Streams of people come and go.
Through these shrunken veins the blood,
Of the country must flow.
O Mighty City's beating heart,
O Clive Street of Bengal,
A thousand dumb veins freeze to make,
The cornerstone of your high hall.</poem>

==Works==
*''Kabita'' (Poems)
*''Bhukhmichhil'' (Hunger Procession)
*''Kancher Manush'' (Glass Humans)
*''Ram gechhe Banabase'' (Ram is in Forest Exile)
*''Kaste'' (Scythe; also part of the symbol of the Communist Party): an allegory on modern industrial life

== References ==
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== External links ==

* [http://www.milansagar.com/kobi/dinesh_das/kobi-dineshdas.html D] {{DEFAULTSORT:Das, Dinesh}}
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