After partition of India in 1947, the Mitra family migrated from Satkhira in Khulna and came to
Basirhat. His father, Ashok Kumar Mitra, was a government worker and opted to live in
India after partition. He was born in the year 1951 in Basirhat. He was a student of
chemistry. His father used to work in the Department of Land Reforms under
Government of West Bengal. == Literary career ==