Born in Kolkata, India,1970, Sutapa Chaudhuri, a PhD in English Literature, is a bilingual poet and a versatile creative writer writing in both Bengali and English. A scholar, a critic, a translator, and an academic, Dr. Chaudhuri has several publications, critical and creative, in a number of reputed literary journals, magazines and books to her credit. She has written many travelogues and essays for children too. Dr. Chaudhuri has lived significant parts of her life in the U.S.A and Japan; and spent 10 long years in Gujarat in western India, a place she considers as her second home. She is currently an Assistant Professor in English, at a College. She lives in south Kolkata with her parents, her teenage daughter and her scientist husband.
No.
Feminism
Doesn't mean you're promiscuous
Only that you refuse to be contained-
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O my native soil, I bow my head to you in deep obeisance.
In you rests the universe, on you is spread the love of the universal mother.
You have become blended in my body,
You have united with my heart and soul,
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I became a mother today,
You a little girl-
A soft cuddly ball of love
Held close in my arms.
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however you might trample me
I will rise again.
untouched, unloved, unheeded-
defined, deified, dismembered
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