[1] Atin Bandyopadhyay was born in 1934 in a Rarhi Kulin Brahmin family from Sammandi, Bikrampur, Dhaka.

[2] He spent his childhood in a joint family set-up in the then-East Bengal of undivided India and studied at Sonar Gaon Panam School.

Subsequently, he became the headmaster of Satui Rajendra Narayan High School, which is situated near the Chowrigacha Railway Station in the Murshidabad district.

He later penned many works, but his masterpiece is considered to be a four-part tetralogy on the Partition: Nilkantha Pakhir Khonje, Manusher Gharbari, Aloukik Jalajan, and Ishwarer Bagan.

Another famous Bengali writer, Syed Mustafa Siraj, has compared Nilkantha Pakhir Khonje with Greek tragedies and has also found it in tune with the core spirit of Bengali literature, such as Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's Pather Panchali.