Bratya Basu
Bratya Basu (born 25 September 1969) is a Bengali professor, dramatist, director, actor and a politician. Basu was West Bengal's minister for education till May 2014 and was then assigned the tourism portfolio. He was elected a MLA, from the Dum Dum constituency in 2011 Assembly Election of West Bengal.
Early life
Bratya Basu was born in Calcutta to noted theater personality & great professor, Dr. Bishnu Basu and famous writer & educational administrator Dr. Neetika Basu. His early name was Bratyabrata Basu Roy Chowdhury .He belongs from "Basu Roy Chowdhury" Family at Ulpur (Now In Faridpur, Bangladesh) He studied Bangla at Presidency College and Calcutta University
Career
Bratya Basu joined the City College, Kolkata as a professor in the department of Bengali. He started out as the sound operator for the theater group Ganakrishti and soon started writing and directing plays with the group.
He started his career as a dramatist with the ultramodern play ashaleen (1996). Noted plays thereafter include aranyadeb, shahar iyar, winkle-twinkle, and the murder drama chatushkon. He won the Shyamal Sen Memorial award in 1998, and the DisharI Award in 2000.
In 2008 he formed the group Bratyajan. A recent production is the 2009 play Ruddhasangeet based on the life of Debabrata Biswas.