His poems were published in famous literary journals including the Buddhadeb Basu-edited Kabita, Porichoy, Chaturanga and Purbasha.
Manibhushan was born in a family of Sanskrit pandits in a small town, Sitakunda, in the district of Chittagong, now in Bangladesh, in 1938.
The brutal counter-insurgent violence of the Indian state against the Naxalites found place in his second book of poems, Utkantha Sharbari, published in 1971.
However, his collection of political poems, Gandhinagare Ratri, published in 1974, marked a revolution in the world of Bengali poetry.
The first poem incorporated in the collection, Gandhinagare Ratri, was a vivid poetic narrative of the killing of a subaltern political activist, Gokul, by police firing, his mother’s pathos, typical responses of middle- class characters and angry protest by a jute mill labourer.