Jayeeta Bhattacharya Biography

Jayeeta Bhattacharya was born in 1971 during the Naxalite revolution in West Bengal, India. Her parents were from an educated old Bengali family of Calcutta. She studied in St Xavier College and did her Masters from Calcutta University. From her student days she was involved in left social movements and started writing articles on maladies.
She writes both in English and Bengali. Her poems are generally on human condition, forces of nature, the disconnect of human beings with values. Several of her poems are confessional.
She teaches English poetry and management studies at a Calcutta High School.
She lives with her husband and two school going kids in South of Calcutta.