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Chandak Chattarji is an educationist, author of English textbooks, poet and translator. He spent four years (1951-1955) in Santiniketan, where his father, Gopal Krishna Chattarji, was the Principal of Patha Bhavan. Graduating from Viswa Bharati University in 1955, he did his MA at the University of Calcutta in 1957 and qualified as an Associate of the College of Preceptors, London, in 1970. The schools he has taught English at include La Martiniere, Lucknow; Sainik School, Rewa; Tashi Namgyal Academy, Gangtok and St Paul's School, Darjeeling. Chattarji retired in 1993 as the Principal of Air Force School, Kanpur. His collection of poemsAnother Dorian Graywas published by the Writers Workshop in 1990. His highly-regarded English text-book for ICSE schools,A Comprehensive English Language Course, was first published by Orient Longman in 1976, and a revised edition was published by Orient BlackSwan in 2002. His recent publications include the poetry collectionSummer Knows(Sampark, 2015) which has been translated into French by Roselyne Sibille; a translation of Jibanananda Das's short fiction (2016) andSix Bangla Poets(2017), both published by Poetrywala, Mumbai.