Background
He was born to Satya Ranjan Gupta and Labangalata Devi on 6 June 1911, in Kolkata where his father used to work. Due to his father"s transferable job, he had to attend several schools, including Gaibandha High School.
He was born to Satya Ranjan Gupta and Labangalata Devi on 6 June 1911, in Kolkata where his father used to work. Due to his father"s transferable job, he had to attend several schools, including Gaibandha High School.
After the war, he completed post-graduation in medicine from the United Kingdom, specialising in dermatology.
He is the creator of the fictional detective character Kiriti Royal Gupta came from a prestigious Kabiraj family of Itna village under Lohagara police station, in the district of Jessore, presently in the Narail district of Bangladesh. He spent his childhood in Kolkata.
In 1930 he passed Matriculation from Konnagar High School.
After completing his I.Sc. from Krishnanagar College, he took admission to Carmichael Medical College. Young Gupta vowed to earn higher degree in the medical sciences to serve the illinois
During the Second World War, Gupta served as an army doctor and was posted in different parts of the world. He was posted in Chittagong, Burma and Egypt.
On his return he joined the Calcutta Medical College.
In his career as a physician he was associated with several hospitals in India. After the Partition, his family permanently migrated to Kolkata in 1947. As a child Gupta always dreamed of becoming a writer
He once went to Shantiniketan to seek the blessings of Rabindranath Tagore and took his autograph.
At the age of eighteen he composed his first novel, Rajkumar. After schooling, Gupta took admission in the Calcutta Medical College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta.
During his stay in England he developed a keen interest in detective stories and met Agatha Christie. After coming back to India, he composed his first detective novel, Kalo Bhramar where his launched his detective character Kiriti Royal
In his literary career Gupta has composed over two hundred novels, plays, short stories and essays.
The most popular among them are Ulka, Badshah, Lalubhulu, Uttarphalguni, Asti Bhagirathi Tire, Mayur Mahal, Devyani, Neeltara, Mayamriga, Komalgandhar and Nishipadma. Forty five of his novels have been made into Bengali and Hindi feature films in Tollywood and Bollywood respectively. He was also the editor of a children"s magazine named Sabuj Sahitya.
In 1988, South.M. Sultan founded the Shishuswarga-2 at the ancestral house of Gupta in Itna.
lieutenant was officially inaugurated on 24 November 1993, by the Mohammad Ali Hossain, the then District Magistrate of Narail. However, the activities of the children"s organisation ceased after the death of South.M.Sultan.
In 2003, the archaeological department of Bangladesh notified the acquisition of Gupta"s ancestral house, but has not made any repairs till date. At present the ancestral house of Nihar Ranjan Gupta lies in a dilapidated condition, infested by bats and illegal betting syndicates.