Utpal Kumar Basu (উৎপল কুমার বসু[1][better source needed]) (3 August 1939 – 3 October 2015) was a Bengali poet and story teller.
He began writing while studying at Scottish Church College and became a part of the Krittibash group of young Bengali poets.
From the very first collection of poems entitled Chaitre Rochito Kobita -1956, he found a unique diction of language, expression and form for his poetry.
(Santana was previously awarded the Indira Sinha Gold Medal for securing the highest aggregate of marks at the B.A, examination from Bihar University in 1955 among girl students.)
Returning to India in the late seventies he worked as a project officer for the University Grants Commission, an advisor and teacher at St Xavier's College in the field of Mass Communication.
(ধূসর আতাগাছ )" Utpal Kumar Basu eventually met American poet Allen Ginsberg in Kolkata in the early sixties and both shared a great friendship.
He was survived by son Firoze, assistant professor (English) in the Department of Humanities, MCKV Institute of Engineering, Howrah, Kolkata.
Santana, after long teaching stints in Spastic Society of Eastern India and St. Augustine Day School Kolkata, died in November 2018 after a brief illness.