Kamini Roy

1. Kamini Roy was born 12 october 1864 in the village of Basanda in Barisal district of Bangladesh .She was a leading Bengali poet,social worker and feminist from India.She was the first woman honours graduate from India.She was inclined towards literature  from a young age  and started composing poems at the age of eight .Her first book of poems Alo O Chhaya was published in 1889.She went out of her way to encourage other writers  and poets .1923,she visited Barisal and encouraged Sufia Kamal to continue writing .She lost her husband in1909.Her intense grief and pain over his premature death deeply affected her personal life and way reflected in her poems .Amongst her notable literary contribotions were Mahasweta,Pouronika,Dwip ODhup,Jibon Pathey ,etc.She died on27 september 1933.