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Vijaya Mukhopadhyay Born in Bikrampur (near Dhaka) in present-day Bangladesh in 1939. Vijaya Mukhopadhyay has been writing poetry since her college days in Calcutta. Her poetry is lyrical, with a lingering memory of many yesterdays, as in poetry: when you come below, but it can also be laced with a social consciousness, as in not you, Puti, which protests the confines of womanhood. As a Sanskrit researcher and educator, she has also written the widely referred mrichhakaTik samAjchitra (1993), which focuses on social aspects in ancient India. Her poetry has been widely translated, including two books in 1994 and 2000. Most recently, she was honoured as the National Poet by Prasara Bharati in 2004. Her works: AmAr
prabhur janya ( my master, for you) 1967 :: Added 12082005 @ 1719 GMT |
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