Dinesh Das (16 September 1913 - 13 March 1985) was a Bengali poet.He was born in his maternal home at Chetla in Alipore, a locality on the bank of Adi Ganga creek. When he was in Class IX, at around 15 years age, he became involved in secret revolutionary Indian independence movement. He also became involved in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Salt Satygraha movement which hampered his formal education. However he passed Matriculation Examination in 1930, and I.A.