Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri (1911-1997) a noted Marxist thinker, a mass leader of rare distinction who devoted his precious life in augmenting and strengethening the cause of toilers democracy in India was the main protagonist of non-conformist communist ideology and its implementation right from the days of the independence movement. He was condemned to the British Jails for several years as a leading activist of the Anushilan Revolutionary outfit. Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri was groomed up as a hardened marxist revolutionary following his vast studies of international and national political situation vis-a-vis the classical writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and other leading luminaries of social movements of those days. He could effectively assimilate the lessons and correlate those with existing ground reality of India. Thus a revolutionary mass leader with distinctive intellect was born.

As a social thinker, Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri was at ease with varied aspects of human life. The questions of Philosophy, Economics, Science including the most delicate and controversial issues of Life Science were dealt by him with competence and authority. He was an admired personality even to his political opponents or adversaries.

Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri was elected to the Indian Parliament (Loksabha) from 1952 to 1984 uninterrupted. As a distinguished member of the Indian Parliament his interventions and debates were of immense value both from the scholastic point of view and also for effectively developing the mass and class struggle against all pervasive ills of the moribund and decadent capitalist rule. An introvert in nature, Tridib Kumar Chaudhuri never blinked even for a moment to raise his bold voice against the ill percieved policies of the Government of India. He was perhaps the solitary member of the Indian Parliament who could shout at the hitherto most admired Prime Minister of the country Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru and demand “either govern or get out”.