the Court of Small Causes in Madras. The tennis player Leander Paes is a direct descendant of Dutt, who is his great-great-grandfather on his mother's side. Death Dutta died in Calcutta General Hospital on 29 June 1873. Three days prior to his death, he recited a passage from Shakespeare's Macbeth to his dear friend Bysack, to express his deepest conviction of life: ...out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Legacy and honours Dutta was largely ignored for 15 years after his death. The belated tribute was a tomb erected at his gravesite. His epitaph, a verse of his own, reads: Stop a while, traveller! Should Mother Bengal claim thee for her son. As a child takes repose on his mother's elysian lap, Even so here in the Long Home, On the bosom of the earth, Enjoys the sweet eternal sleep Poet Madhusudan of the Duttas. Michael Madhusudhan is a 1950 Indian Bengali-language drama film by Modhu Bose which starred Utpal Dutt in the titular role. Author Namita Gokhale published a play about Madhusudhan in 2021, based largely on letters written by him to friends and other authors, called Betrayed by Hope. In honour of Dutt, every year on his birthday a fair is held in his home at Sagardari. Which is organized by District Council of Jessore . Every year various MP and Minister of national parliament of Bangladesh attend this fair. In honour of Dutt a school and a college are named after him in Jessore District. And a university was proposed to be set up in this birth place. They are; Michael Madhusudan College Sagardari Michael Madhusudan Institution Micheal Madhusudan Specialized University In India Michael Madhusudan Dutta College in Tripura name after him. Works King Porus The Captive Ladie (1849) Ratul Potra Sermista (1859) (Bengali and English) Padmavati (1859) Ekei Ki Boley Sabyota (1860) Krishna Kumari (1860) Buro Shaliker Ghare Ron (1860) Tilottama Sambhava Kavya (1861) Meghnad Badh Kavya (1861) Brajagana Kavya (1861) Veerangana Kavya (1861) Ratnavali (English translation) Nil Darpan (English translation) Choturdoshpodi Kobitaboli Rizia, the Sultana of Inde Rosalo Sornolatika Bongobani Sonnets and other poems (1866) Bongo bhumir prati See also Indian poetry in English Indian English literature Indian literature References