Robin Dey


Robin Dey was an Indian thriller novelist and actor from Assam. He wrote Dasyu Bhaskar series and Paban series. Dasyu Bhaskar series included 62 books and the first book was titled Dasyu Bhaskarar Abirbhab in Assamese language which became popular among the readers in the seventies and eighties. Rongmon was a pseudonym or pen-name of Robin Dey. Porasor is sobriquet of Dey. He was also an actor.

Career

Robin Dey was born in a Bengali family near the Dikhow river in Nazira of Sibsagar district of Assam on 18 March 1922. He studied in Nazira and at the Scottish Church College at the University of Calcutta. He had completed his matriculation in 1943 and then left for Calcutta for higher education and continued his work in Assamese literature as an Assamese proof reader for the magazine "Soviet Desh". Dey died on 22 July 1980.

Literary works

Apart from the Dasyu Bhaskar novels, Rongmon had also written several other children's novels namely Daku, Paban Konwar and Parbatar Ringoni. His social novel Nipator pat was serially published in Assamese magazine Amar pratinidhi and remained incomplete.