In the year 1812, on this day, Ishwar Chandra Gupta was born at Kanchrapara of West Bengal in a Baidya family. He was brought up in his uncle's house after the death of his mother. Gupta spent most of his childhood in Kolkata. At that time, poets were named Kobiwala and the kobiwalas were not so civilized in language. Sexual words and clashes were common. But Ishwar Chandra Gupta created a different style of poetry. He started the newspaper Samvad Prabhakar with Jogendra Mohan Tagore on January 28, 1831, which finally became a daily on June 4, 1839. Many Bengali writers of the 19th century started their careers with that magazine. He reintroduced into Bengali poetry the mediaeval style with double meaning (already seen in Sandhyakar Nandi and Bharatchandra): কে বলে ঈশ্বর গুপ্ত, ব্যপ্ত চরাচর, যাহার প্রভায় প্রভা পায় প্রভাকর। Ke bole Ishwar Gupta, byapta charachar, Jahar prabhaye prabha paye Prabhakar. 'Ishwar' means God, 'Gupta' means hidden and 'Pra...