Writer and editor Gaurishankar Tarkabagish started the journal Sambad Rasaraj on this day. Through this, he entered into a debate from a radical viewpoint with poet and journalist Ishwar Chandra Gupta. Tarkabagish had arrived in Kolkata from Naihati, where he had received a traditional education in Sanskrit, and had established himself soon as a journalist. He practically edited the Young Bengal mouthpiece Gnananveshan, ran Sambad Bhaskar and edited Hinduratna Kamalakar. He became popular as a journalist but was fined and jailed for publishing pieces that were “obscene” or based on personal attacks. He had established Bangabhasha Prakashika Sabha, which was probably the first organisation dedicated to the development of the Bengali language. He had been a witness at the wedding between Dakshinaranjan Mukhopadhyay and the Burdwan royal, Rani Basantakunari, a widow.