Mohit Sen

Post-independence and Cold War Contemporary history Mohit Sen (born 24 March 1929, in Calcutta, and died in Hyderabad on 3 May 2003) was a communist intellectual.

Mohit Sen had his early education at the Presidency College, Calcutta, where he was a student of Professor Susobhan Sarkar.

After his return to India, Mohit Sen worked in the CPI central office in New Delhi and also for its publishing house during 1953–62.

The following words of Jawaharlal Nehru, who was then prime minister, to visiting Soviet leaders Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev in 1955, aptly summarises the CPI's position then: Until this year (1955) the Communist Party was saying that Indian people were not independent; they even opposed our National Day celebrations....

Sen parted ways with the CPI, following its anti-Congress stand, in 1978, following Indira Gandhi's emergency and subsequent failure in the election.

He was married to Vanaja Iyengar, a mathematician, Padma Shri awardee and founder vice chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam[4] and at the time of his death, Sen, 74, was a widower and had no children.

[5] Sen was a prolific writer; credited to him are following books: He published his autobiography A Traveller and the Road: A Journey of an Indian Communist in March 2003, few months before his death.