Eminent litterateur and journalist Nimai Bhattacharya has passed away. He was 89.

He breathed his last at his residence at Taliganj of Kolkata in India at Thursday noon.

Nimai Bhattacharya had been suffering from geriatric illness for long. 

Besides journalism, he engaged himself in literary works and became a popular writer.

Nimai Bhattacharya was born in 10 April 1931 in Magura's Shalikha.

He had written over 150 books. But his most notable work is Memsaheb. 

A film was made based on the book named Memsaheb where Uttam Kumar and Aparna Sen were in main roles.