An Article by Sanjukta Dasgupta

Dr.Sanjukta Dasgupta,Professor and Former Head, 

Dept of  English and Former Dean, Faculty of Arts,

Calcutta University and Fulbright Fellow. She is a poet,

 short story writer, critic and translator.

She was a member of the GeneralCouncil of

 Sahitya Akademi New Delhi and Convenor, English Advisory Board,

Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. She is the President of the

 Intercultural Poetry Performance Library, Kolkata.

She received the WEI Kamala Das Poetry Award in 2020

 and the ETHOS Literary Award in 2022.

Dasgupta has 26 published books. Her published

 books of poetry are Snapshots (1997), Dilemma (2002),

First Language (2005), More Light (2009),

Lakshmi Unbound ( 2017) Sita’s Sisters (2019)

 Unbound : New and Selected

Poems edited by Jaydeep Sarangi and

 Sanghita Sanyal) (2021), IndomitableDraupadi (2022).

 Her poems have been translated in German, Serbian,

Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Kashmiri and Tamil.