![]() He was elected a MLA, from the Dum Dum constituency in 2011 Assembly Election of West Bengal. Early Life of Bratya Basu Bratya, the son of popular theatre personality of West Bengal - Bishnu Basu, was born on 25th September 1969. He completed his education from Presidency College, Kolkatawith Bachelor of Arts in Bengali. He later earned his masters degree from University of Calcutta. Career of Bratya Basu Bratya Basu with a rich background of theatre got involved with Bengali theatre and drama from a very young age. Initially of course he joined the theatre group as Sound Operator at Ganasakti Theatre of Kolkata. Along with theatre and drama he also took up teaching as a career, and taught as a Bengali professor in City College, Kolkata under University of Calcutta., Bratya Basu is a fine author and writer as well, who wrote several plays and also directed many of them as well. Some of the well-known and renowned Bengali plays written by Bratya are Ashaleen, Shahriyar, Aranyadeb, Chatushkon etc. One of the plays that created huge uproar during his initial days was Winkle-Wwinkle. In the year 2008, Bratya Basu performed a theatre group of his own by the name of "Bratya Jon". The group's maiden production, that has been very popular, is "Ruddhasangeet" on the life of Debabrata Biswas. ![]() Bratya Basu, himself has been involved in movie directions and has three names under kitty, they are Raastaa (theme of youth moving into terrorism), Teesta, (a film on society and the failure of romance) and Tara (a movie on Maoists). Political Career of Bratya Basu Bratya Basu's emergence has been a sudden one. And right in the first attempt he won a seat for his part - All India Trinamool Congress. He fought the assembly election in West Bengal on his party's ticket against a heavy weight leader of Communist Part of India named Gautam Deb from Dum Dum (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and won. With the win he was made the Minister for Higher Education in Mamata Banerjee's cabinet. And since then he has been working hard towards improving the state of education in West Bengal. |
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