Subhash Mukhopadhyay (Shubhash Mukhopaddhaeⓘ; 12 February 1919 – 8 July 2003) was one of the foremost Indian Bengali poets of the 20th century.

A book of thirty of Subhash's best known poems in English translation, titled ' As Day is Breaking', was published in 2014 by Anjan Basu, a Bangalore-based writer/critic.

It represented a clear departure from the earlier Kallol generation of poets; and Subhash's distinctive, direct voice, allied with his technical skill and radical world-view, gained him great popularity.

In his poetry, Subhash grappled with the massive upheavals of that era which ruptured Bengali society from top to bottom.

Subhash's writings broke away from the traditional moorings of the establishment poets, and instead addressed the despair and disillusion felt by the common people.

He was one of the leaders of the "Anti-Fascist Writers' and Artists' Association", formed in March 1942 in reaction to the murder of Somen Chanda, a fellow-writer and Marxist activist.

Subhash remained attached with the Communist Party until 1982, and spent time in jail as a political prisoner briefly in the late 1960s.

He edited the Bengali children's periodical Sandesh jointly with Satyajit Ray for a few years in the early sixties.

Paanjor phatiye hashchhey.Translation to English: Whether flowers bloom or not, it's Spring today Standing on the concrete pavement Dipping his toes into the rock A curmudgeonly tree Decked out in new leaves

Do smile, all ye, do enjoy...He was a fellow of the Sahitya Akademi, and was the Deputy Secretary of the Progressive Writers' Union.