Shishir Bhattacharja (born 4 August 1963) is a Bangladeshi linguist, writer, columnist, and a professor of the French language at the University of Dhaka.
He translated works of Guillaume Apollinaire, Arthur Rimbaud, and Bernard-Henri Lévy into Bengali and poems of Jibanananda Das into French.
[5] Born in Sitakunda, Chattogram, he completed Bachelor's and Master's in Indology and Linguistics at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.
In 1989, Bhattacharja joined Dhaka University where he is, at present, the Director of the Institute of Modern Languages.
[citation needed] Accused of making hateful remarks against Islam and Muslims, as well as derogatory comments about victims of so called anti-discrimination movements, a group of Dhaka University students protested in front of the Vice-Chancellor's residence on December 12, demanding his dismissal.