On this day revolutionary Satish Chandra Pakrashi was arrested from Mechhuabazar Street, along with fellow revolutionaries Niranjan Sen and Raman Biswas, for planning armed uprising in three places — Chittagong, Barisal and Calcutta.
He was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment and sent to Cellular Jail in the Andamans, from where he was released in 1938.
He had been involved with Anushilan Samiti, a revolutionary outfit, from his early youth and had been imprisoned for his activities and also gone underground. In 1923, there had been an attempt to send him to Russia with a revolutionary from Bengal who had arrived from Russia.
At Cellular Jail, like many revolutionaries during imprisonment, he devoted himself to study, especially books on communism and socialism, and joined the Communist Party of India on his release. He later joined the CPM.
He had spent more than three decades of his life in prison and in hiding. His autobiography Agnijuger Kotha (The Story of the Revolutionary Age), which received acclaim, documents his fiery times.