Background
Adwaita Mallabarman was born in a Malo family in Gokarnoghat village beside the river Titash, near Brahmanbaria town in, Comilla District of undivided Bengal.
Adwaita Mallabarman was born in a Malo family in Gokarnoghat village beside the river Titash, near Brahmanbaria town in, Comilla District of undivided Bengal.
He is mostly known for his novel Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titash) which was published in a monthly named Mohammadi five years after his death. He was the first child from the Mallo community of the village and nearby area to finish school. He attended the town"s elementary school and Annada High School.
He matriculated from the school in 1933, and went on to Comilla Victoria College.
In part because of financial difficulty, he left college in 1934 and went to Calcutta to work as a literary editors Throughout his teen years he wrote prodigiously, mostly poetry, and published in student magazines.
Those early writings were highly acclaimed, so much so that peers who aspired to be writers sought his opinion on their work before sending it to a publisher. Mallabarman"s first job in Calcutta was as assistant editor of a literary and news magazine, Navashakti.
During this period he also worked for the newspaper Azad.
In 1945 he joined the literary weekly Desh and the daily Ananda Bazar Patrika. From 1945 through 1950 a number of his poems, stories, essays, and translations were published in Desh and other magazines. His growing career as a literary editor and a writer ended abruptly with his death at age thirty-seven.
He was diagnosed in 1950 as suffering from tuberculosis.
He had felt increasingly unwell for two years. Soon after his release he suffered a relapse and was readmitted.
Before the second phase of his treatment was over, however, he walked out of the hospital. Two months later, on 16 April 1951, he died.
Members of the Malo community collected subscriptions to support his school expenses (mainly books, since his school fees were either waived or covered by scholarships he received).