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.