Dinesh Gupta

Dinesh Chandra Gupta (Bengali: দিনেশ চন্দ্র গুপ্ত Dinesh Chôndro Gupto) or Dinesh Gupta (6 December 1911 – 7 July 1931) was an Indian revolutionary against British rule in India, who is noted for launching an attack on the Secretariat Building - the Writers' Building in the Dalhousie square in Calcutta, along with Badal Gupta and Benoy Basu.

Dinesh Gupta
Born(1911-12-06)6 December 1911
Died7 July 1931(1931-07-07) (aged 19)
Calcutta, Bengal, British India (now West Bengal, India)
Cause of deathExecution by hanging
Alma materDhaka College
Known forWriters' Building attack

Rabindrasangeet exponent and trainer Maya Sen (maiden name Gupta) was his own niece. Even he suggested his sister-in-law Ashalata Gupta to let Maya learn Rabindrasangeet. His nephew and Maya's brother Dr. Tapan Gupta was a doctor and established 'the Tagoreans' in London. Mr. Gupta's daughter is an MBE, Tanika Gupta, a playwright and regularly works for BBC and the stage in England.

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