Taradas Bandyopadhyay (15 October 1947 – 18 July 2010) was a Bengali novelist, short story writer and editor.

(Honours) in English from Maulana Azad College and completed post-graduation from the Calcutta University.

[3] He spent his childhood at his paternal village-home in Bongaon in a place which was incidentally called Barakpur again.

[citation needed] Taradas wrote number of short stories and novels like Kaal Nirabadhi, Saptarshir Alo, Kakkhopath.

[6] In the year 2008, Taradas started writing his interpretation of Bibhutibhusan's life in a biography-styled series called Pita Nohsi for Udbodhan magazine, but couldn't complete it because of his death in 2010.