Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay

Sailesh Kumar Bandyopadhyay was born on 10 March 1926, at Chakradharpur, in the erstwhile Bengal, presently in the Indian state of Jharkhand. His father was an Indian Railways employee with moderate financial resources. The young Sailesh soon came under the influence of Mahatma Gandhi and, after passing matriculation in 1942, he joined Quit India Movement and was arrested twice by the British India police. In 1944, Bandyopadhyay joined the trade union movement at Tatanagar, which was being led by known trade union activists such as Abdul Bari, Michael John and Moni Ghosh. Two years later, in 1946, he joined Indian National Congress. Soon, he rose up in ranks and in 1951, he became the Office Secretary of the District Congress Committee, with the responsibility of the Gandhian Village Reconstruction Centre, near Jamshedpur. ==Positions==

. • Secretary District Congress Committee – 1946 to 1951 • Joint Convenor — Khadi Mission • Chairman, Central Certification Committee on Khadi ==Awards and recognitions==

• Padma Bhushan – 2010 • Ananda Puroskar • Ashalata Puroskar – Viswa Bharati University • Annada Shankar Literary Award – Bangla Academy ==Writings==

Sailesh Kumar Bandhopadyaya was a prolific writer and one of his books, Gandhi Parikrama, is prescribed by the University of Calcutta as text for the three year honors degree on Philosophy. • • • ==References==