He pioneered what came to be called amitrakshar chhanda (blank verse). He was the first to write Bengali plays in the English style, segregating the play into acts and scenes. He was also the pioneer of the first satirical plays in Bengali - Buro Salik er Ghare Row and Ekei Ki Bole Sovyota? (Is this what we call Civilisation?). When Deenabandhu Mitra wrote a Bengali play portraying the plight of the workers in indigo plantatiobs at the hands of their British masters, he was the person who translated the play into English. He was supported in his times of financial crisis by his friends and Sri Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar; the latter sent him monthly allowances regularly on the condition that he should concentrate all his efforts in creating great specimens of Bengali poetry. In his words: Where man in all his truest glory lives, And natures face is exquisitely sweet; For those fair climes I heave impatient sigh, There let me live and there let me die.” Inspired by both the life and work of the English Romantic poet Lord Byron, he was a spirited bohemian and Romantic. He wrote the tragic epic Meghnadh Badh Kabya. Michael Madhusudan Dutta was born today in 1824. Regards.
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