Chittaranjan Das, born on 5 November 1870, Kolkata, popularly called Deshbandhu (friend of the country), was a Bengali
freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian Independence
Movement and mentor of Subhas Chandra Bose. He was the
founder-leader of the Swaraj Party in undivided Bengal during the period of British Colonial rule in
India. His name is abbreviated as C. R. Das. He was closely associated with a
number of literary societies and wrote poems, apart from numerous articles and
essays.
