The author BIMAL MITRA is well known through out India as the most popular and widely read novelist through translations in all the major Indian languages. He resigned from Indian Railway Services in 1950 at the age of 38 only. To become a devoted full time writer. He extensively studied the world classical literature and wrote a series of epic novels following the great examples of classical writers like Russo, Tolstoy, Balzak, Charles Dicknes, Dostoevesky, Checkov, Rome Rola, Sinclair , Flobair etc.

He was a straightforward ,non-compromising, independent writer and a silent fighter against social ills. While he never belived in short-term popularity and official recognitions, he enjoyed tremendous popularity among the readers along with rewards like Rabindra Puraskar, Sarat Smriti puraskar , Banaphool Sahitya Puraskar ete. In 1983, the author was named as one of the best writer in Morque's who's who in the world's published from Cicago, USA.

His epic novels got great appreciations from readers as well as criticts like Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mazumder, Dr. Sri Kumar Bandopadhya, Dr. Sisir Kumar Das, Shri Subhas Chandra Sarkar, Dr. Arun Kumar Bose and many eminent writers like SHANKAR, Sunil gangopadhya etc. Mrs. Indira Devi Chowdhurirani - the Vice chancellor of Vishwa Bharati University was so mush impressed with his first epic novel "Saheb Biwi Gulam" that she expressed her View in writing that the author should have been awarded The Noble Prize or similar literary award for this novel only.