Background
Kalpana Datta (also commonly spelt Dutta or Dutt) was born at Sripur, a village of Chittagong District in the Bengal Province of British India (Sripur is now located in Boalkhali Upazila in Bangladesh).
Kalpana Datta (also commonly spelt Dutta or Dutt) was born at Sripur, a village of Chittagong District in the Bengal Province of British India (Sripur is now located in Boalkhali Upazila in Bangladesh).
University of Calcutta. Bethune College.
After passing her matriculation examination in 1929 from Chittagong, she went to Calcutta and joined the Bethune College for graduation in Science. Soon, she joined the Chhatri Sangha (Women Students Association), a semi-revolutionary organisation in which Bina Das and Pritilata Waddedar were also active. The Chittagong armoury raid was carried out on 18 April 1930.
Kalpana joined the "Indian Republican Army, Chattagram branch", the armed resistance group led by Surya Senator in May 1931.
In September, 1931 Surya Senator entrusted her along with Pritilata Waddedar to attack the European Club in Chittagong. But a week before the attack, she was arrested while carrying out reconnaissance of the area.
She went underground after her release on bail. On 17 February 1933 the police encircled their hiding place and Surya Senator was arrested but Kalpana was able to escape.
She was finally arrested on 19 May 1933.
In the second supplementary trial of the Chittagong armoury raid case, Kalpana was sentenced to transportation for life. She was released in 1939. Kalpana Datta graduated from the Calcutta University in 1940 and joined the Communist Party of India.
She served as a relief worker during the 1943 Bengal famine and during the Partition of Bengal.
She wrote an autobiographical book, Chittagong Armoury Raiders: Reminiscences, published in English in 1945. Later, she joined the Indian Statistical Institute where she worked until her retirement.
She died in Calcutta on 8 February 1995. In 2010, Deepika Padukone starred as Kalpana Datta, in a Hindi movie, Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, which dealt with the Chittagong armoury raid and its aftermath.
Another movie, Chittagong, was released on 12 October 2012, based on the uprising.
lieutenant was produced and directed by Bedabrata Pain, an ex-National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist