Chharpatra (1948) is a Bengali book of poems written by Sukanta Bhattacharya. Sukanta wrote the poems of this book from 1943–1947.^[1] He died of tuberculosis at the age of 20. Following his death, Chharpatra, a collection of his poetry was published.^[2][3] Much of Bhattacharya poetry was heavily influenced by his experience living under the colonial rule of the British Empire.

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Chharpatra created a sensation when it first appeared.^[4] Sukanta picked up particular types of labour class people as the subject of his poetry. Some of his poetries in the book Chharpatra presented some magnificent hitherto which was unknown to the Bengali poetry readers.^[5] The book starts with the poetry Chharpatra— the theme of the poetry was– "A new child is born; we will have to make room for him."^[6] "I shall make this world a fit place for him to live in."^[7]

One of his shorter poems name "Hey Mahajibon" (হে মহাজীবন) from the book Chharpatra compares the moon with a burnt roti, a prosaicness born of hunger: