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Mallika Sengupta was a Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of Sociology from Kolkata, known for her "unapologetically political poetry".
Biography
Mallika was born in Krishnanagar, a village in Nadia district, West Bengal, India. Sengupta is a proponent of an unapologetically political poetry and an important voice in contemporary Bengali literature. She began writing in 1981 and has since published eleven books of poetry, two novels and several essays, and edited an anthology of women’s poetry from Bengal. She works as a lecturer of sociology in a Kolkata college where she is currently the head of her department. She is also the Poetry Editor of Sananda, the... more »
Mallika Sengupta Poems
She who spun rhymes, wove blankets
The Dravidian woman who sowed wheat
In the Aryan man’s fields, reared his kids
If she isn’t worker, then what is work?... more »
The moment she tucks in the mosquito net and goes
to bed, her husband's black hands fumble after... more »
The drumroll of centuries —
our hearts beat
with hopes and fears.... more »
As the shadows of Minto Park shifted
They too moved away from the sun's heat,
The two creatures who had left the dreadful house
Two storm-tossed birds - daughter and mother.... more »
Listen o listen:
Hark this tale of Khanaa
In Bengal in the Middle Ages... more »
Gujarat was a land of violet, red and green
But colors deceived like lizards... more »
Man, I've never raised my arms against you
Slitting the hair-parting the day you drew the insignia of blood
I felt pain, I didn't tell you... more »
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The Girl On The Sunlit Road
As the shadows of Minto Park shifted
They too moved away from the sun's heat,
The two creatures who had left the dreadful house
Two storm-tossed birds - daughter and mother.
What took place in the night's darkness? Outrage! Outrage!
Incessant violence would tear up the woman
While the eyes of the mute girl streamed,
She watched nightlong, nightlong, blood trickling down
Her mother's bruises.
The nightly eyewitness from a neighbouring window
Flared. Slamming his window shut he says, 'I want privacy, privacy.'
Window cries out, 'Why are you beating your ...
I wan t to print the poem Amar Durga
I want to print the Kanyaslok/Aamar Durga in bengali version.
Draupadi Janmo poem in print form