Samaresh Basu Pen name Kalkut (11 December 1924 ? 12 March 1988) was a Bengali writer. He was awarded the 1980 Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali, by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, for his novel, Shamba. He won the 1983 Filmfare Awards for Best Story for Namkeen.