Prateeti's husband Sanjib Datta was the son of Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta, the first person to demand state recognition of Bangla language in the Pakistan Constituent Assembly. Dhirendranath and his son Dilip Datta were tortured and killed by the Pakistani military in 1971. Born in Old Dhaka in 1925, Prateeti left Bangladesh with her brothers - author Manish Ghatak and Ritwik Ghatak -- and niece Mahasweta Devi, during the 1947 Partition. Prateeti later returned to Bangladesh and got married to Sanjib, who worked as a journalist at the then Pakistan Observer (later renamed Bangladesh Observer after liberation). She received popular acclaim for her book ‘Ritwik ke Shesh Bhalobasha’ (last love for Ritwik).

Source: bd News24 January 13, 2020 11:48 UTC