It's this strange man's birthday. I say strange because such an Anglophile I doubt ever existed even back in the day, and yet his œuvre in Bengali is formidable.

I really like the poem he composed for his grave - দাঁড়াও পথিক-বর! জন্ম যদি তব বঙ্গে! তিষ্ট ক্ষণকাল!

He lived in France for a number of years, though dirt poor, & had to depend on the kindness of the French, & বিদ্যাসাগর to survive.

Also, formidable linguistic skills!

« I think I may without vanity say, that I know more languages than any Bengali now living » - goals! ;_;

Oh and apparently Michael Madhusudan Dutta was asked to teach Bengali at University College London, but without a salary lol. Academics, I tell you (and also colonialism?)!

Source : https://bn.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0:%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A7%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4_-_%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A5_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%81.pdf