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Sahitya Akademi award winning writer Samaresh Majumdar passed away

Sahitya Akademi award winning writer Samaresh Majumdar passed away

Kolkata: Eminent writer of Bengali literature, classical novelist and Sahitya Akademi Awardee Samaresh Majumdar passed away at Apollo Hospital in Kolkata on Monday evening. He is best known for portraying the turbulent Naxalite era of the 1970s. A hospital official said Majumdar, 79, was suffering from ‘chronic obstructive pulmonary disease’

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