Prothom Alo 01 is a popular novel written by Sunil Gangopadhyay. I wonder how a man can write a book of this vividness and liveliness. This is I will say, a feast of history, a journey with eminent figures of Indian Renaissance covering a timeline from 1883 to 1907. It starts from the royal palace of Tripura and expands its storyline from the politics to poetry, physical love to spirituality, with Bharat and Bhumisuta as its primary protagonists. But is the book has only these two protagonists, a really long range of names comes? Tagore, Vivekananda, Gandhi, Gokhale, Tilak, Girish Ghosh, Arabindo all the most talked-about names are present.

Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly (Bengali: সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায় Shunil Gônggopaddhae), (7 September 1934 – 23 October 2012)[1] was an Indian poet and novelist.[3] Born in Faridpur, Bangladesh, Gangopadhyay obtained his Master's degree in Bengali from the University of Calcutta, In 1953 he with few of his friends started a Bengali poetry magazine Krittibas. Later he wrote for many different publications.

Ganguly created the Bengali fictional character Kakababu and wrote a series of novels on this character which became legendary in Indian children's literature. In 1982 he received Sahitya Akademi award in 1985 for his novel Those Days (Sei Samaya).[4] Gangopadhyay used the pen names Nil Lohit, Sanatan Pathak, and Nil Upadhyay.[1]

Author of well over 200 books,[1] Sunil was a prolific writer who has excelled in different genres but declares poetry to be his "first love".[5] His Nikhilesh and Neera series of poems (some of which have been translated as For You, Neera and Murmur in the Woods) have been extremely popular.