Earlier, on 14 October, while crossing the road in Ballygunge, he was seriously injured in a tram accident.

Although Jibanananda Das’s ancestral home was in Barishal, Bangladesh, his forefathers lived in Bikrampur in the then Dhaka district. Born to father Satyananda Dasgupta and mother Kusumkumari Das, the writer of the poem ‘Adarsha Chhele’, Jibanananda’s life passed through severe financial hardship and struggle. Although only seven of his poetry collections were published during his lifetime, many of his timeless poems, stories and novels came to light from manuscripts recovered after his death. His notable works include— Jhora Palok, Dhushar Pandulipi, Banalata Sen, Mahaprithibi and Rupasi Bangla.

One of the major Bengali poets of the twentieth century, he portrayed Bengal’s nature, the inner loneliness of people and the exhaustion of modern urban life with precision in his writing. In 1947, before Partition, he moved with his family to Kolkata. Cultural activists have long been protesting, demanding the recovery of his occupied ancestral house left behind in Barishal.