Manmath Nath Gupta, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Manmath Nath Gupta

Indian revolutionary

Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1908

Date of Death: 26-Oct-2000

Profession: author

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Manmath Nath Gupta (7 February 1908 – 26 October 2000) was an Indian revolutionary writer and author of autobiographical, historical and fictional books in Hindi, English and Bengali.
He joined the Indian independence movement at the age of 13, and was an active member of the Hindustan Republican Association.
He participated in the famous Kakori train robbery in 1925 and was imprisoned for 14 years.
On release from jail in 1937, he started writing against the British government.
He was sentenced again in 1939 and was released in 1946 just a year before the India's independence in 1947.
He has written several books on the history of the Indian struggle for independence from a revolutionary's point of view, including They Lived Dangerously – Reminiscences of a Revolutionary.
He was also the editor of the Hindi literary magazine Aajkal.