Eminent Bengali poet Alokeranjan Dasgupta was born in 6th October 1933. He attended Tagore's school at Santiniketan and obtained his higher education at the University of Calcutta. He taught comparative literature and Bengali at Jadavpur University and later went to Germany on a Humboldt Foundation Fellowship. Over the last years he has been teaching New Indology at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. In addition to several volumes of poems in Bengali, Alokeranjan has also published a number of academic works. His literary prizes include Goethe Medal of the Goethe-Institute, Ananda-Award, Rabindranath Tagore Prize for literature, and Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992. He did enormous work and publication on Tagore's life and work. He did research on Baul songs of Bengal and wrote a book - "Roots in the void: Baul songs of Bengal".  Among his famous collection of poems in Bengali are "Jauban Baul", "Nisidhha Kojagori", "ekhono nameni bandhu, nuclear shiter godhuli", "Tushar jure trishul chinho", "Marami Karat" etc