of Chhau Labanya Prabha Ghosh, Indian freedom fighter Mabinul Haq, Sahitya Akademi Award for Bengali Translation winning Bengali writer Mihir Sen, first Indian to swim the English Channel from Dover to Calais in 1958 Pinki Pramanik, an Indian track and field athlete winning silver at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, gold at the 2006 Asian Games, and gold at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games Shyam Sundar Besra, Sahitya Akademi Award-winning writer of Santali and Hindi Language See also Bengali Language Movement (Manbhum) Purulia arms drop case Pandri, Purulia district (First solar-powered village in India) References External links Purulia district official website Purulia image gallery Districts of West Bengal 1956 establishments in West Bengal 9th-century Jain temples