Bandyopadhyay, Bhabanicharan (1787-1848)  writer, journalist and satirist, was born at Narayanpur in Ukhra Pargana near Kolkata. rammohun roy's reform movements polarised the nineteenth-century intellectuals into conservatives and liberals. Bhabanicharan Bandyopadhyay was an active member of the conservative group.

Besides Bangla, Bhabanicharan Bandyopadhyay was proficient in English, Persian and Sanskrit. His proficiency in English earned him the job of banian and diwan in several European firms. However, Bhabanicharan was more interested in journalism and, in 1821, joined the Sambad Kaumudi, of which Rammohan Roy was the founder, as editor. However, he soon fell out with Rammohan on religious issues and resigned. He then started his own journal, Samachar Chandrika (l822). The journal was extremely conservative, and its main objective was to criticise the reforms of the company government and young bengal radicalism. He was appointed the first secretary of the conservative group's dharma sabha (1830), of which radhakanta deb was president.

Himself a Kulin Brahmin, Bhabanicharan was contemptuous of the emerging nouveau riche and ridiculed them in his satirical works such as Kalikata Kamalalay (1823), Navavavuvilas (1825), Dutivilas (1825) and Navavivivilas (1831). Among his other literary works are Hitopadesh (1823), Ashcharya Upakhyan (1834), and Purusottam Chandrika (1844). He also edited Shrimadbhagavat, Manusanghita, Pravodhchandroday Natak, etc. Bhabanicharan Bandyopadhyay died in Kolkata on 20 February 1848. [Sushanta Sarker]