Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya is an Indian poet, translator and literary critic writing in Bengali and English. She won First Prize at the All India Poetry Competition in 1991 organized by The Poetry Society (India) in collaboration with the British Council.[1]
Biography
Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya was born in 1927. She taught at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Fergusson College, Pune. She was also Professor of Philosophy at Nowrosjee Wadia College. She is the author of The Owl and Other Poems and The Touch Me Not Girl. She also translated the songs of Rabindranath Tagore[2] and was on the jury for the first All India Poetry Competition for School Children held in 1996.[3]
Selected works
Books
- ‘’The Owl and Other Poems’’, Writers Workshop, Kolkata India 1972
- ’’The Touch Me Not Girl’’, Disha Publishers, New Delhi India 2000.
- ’’28 Songs of Rabindranath Tagore’’, Writers Workshop , Kolkata India 2002.
Articles
- Personal Man and Personal God ‘’International Philosophical Quarterly’’ Volume-15, December 1975.
- Because He is a Man ‘’Cambridge Journal’’ Volume 49, Issue 175, January 1974.
- ‘’The Waste Land of Bengali Fiction’’, “Indian Writing Today”, Volume-3, Number-3, July–September 1969
See also
References
Sources
- “Ghosts”, The Little Magazine, ‘’Rules of Love’’
- Contemporary Indian English Poetry – Challenges and Response
- Nations of the Soul and Female Poetic Activism – Rajlukshmee Debee’s ‘’Punarnava’’