Anindya Mukhopadhyay Biography

Born at Kolkata, Bengal. Mukhopadhyay is well known as a proficient stage actor and eloquent reciter of verses. He took up writing poetry much later and write poems mostly in English besides Bengali.

Anindya completed his schooling at St. Mary's Orphanage & Day School and then graduated from Dum Dum Motijheel College in English Honours in the year 2012. After pursuing postgraduate degree in English from Rabindra Bharati University, he is currently undergoing a two-year B.Ed. training programme under WBUTTEPA.

At the age of twelve, he was awarded Jugal Srimal scholarship of Tagore Foundation for his outstanding performance in Bengali Elocution competition. In school he distinguished himself by winning several prizes at recitation and creative writing.

Apart from a good thinker, Anindya has been blessed with an innate understanding of human psychology. His poems show him as a realist and social critic of the time.

Mukhopadhyay tried his hand at play-writing too. He wrote three one act plays, last of which was written in collaboration with his father. Today he occasionally write blogs at YourQuote and Miraquill (formerly Mirakee.