Manish Ghatak (9 February 1902– 27 December 1979)[1] was an Indian poet and novelist writin in Bengali.
Noted Bengali film director Ritwik Ghatak was his youngest brother.
Ghatak married Dharitri Devi, who was from the well known Chaudhuri family in Dhaka, in undivided Bengal, with Sankho Chaudhuri, the noted sculptor and Sachin Chaudhuri, the founder-editor of the Economic and Political Weekly of India, being her siblings.
Mahasweta Devi is their eldest daughter.
[3] His eldest grandson, Mahasweta Devi's son, Nabarun Bhattacharya was also a very well-known writer.