Chandrakanta Murasingh born on 1st April 1957, was one of the best-known poets from the Northeast Indian state of Tripura. He came from a family of shifting cultivators in the remote hamlet of Twibandal and used to work in a bank. He passed away on 27th March 2023 at the age of 66.

He has seven collections of poems to his name. A significant number of his poems have appeared in English translations in “Indian Literature,” the Journal of Sahitya Akademi, and “Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the North-East,” published by NEHU, as well as in anthologies published by Oxford University Press and Penguin Books. He also translated Rabindra Nath Tagore’s Geetanjali in Kokborok language.

In the year 1976, he received Bhasa Samman Award from the Sahitya Akademi for his contribution to the development of Kokborok literature. The Tripura State Government bestowed upon him the Rabindra Puraskar. The Telegraph Group honoured him with the “True Legend of North-East India Award.” He took part in the Bangladesh National Poetry Festival three times. The Presidency University has published a hundred of his poems in Hindi translation.

He described his poetic endeavour as an attempt to capture the various shades and tones of the landscape in Tripura. The state, as his poetry reveals, was a complex terrain of everyday negotiation in which nature and politics, the physical and the cultural, are inextricably linked.