Manoranjan Byapari

Manoranjan Byapari is an Indian Bengali writer, socio-political activist and a politician. He is among the early writers of Dalit literature in Bengali from the Indian state of West Bengal. He could not afford any formal education and is perhaps the only convict-turned-Rickshaw puller who has penned a dozen novels and over a hundred short stories, apart from non-fiction essays. He was elected as an MLA, from the Balagarh (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.