Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya Explained

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 the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Fergusson College, Pune. She was also a Professor of Philosophy at Nowrosjee Wadia College.^[2]

She is the author of The Owl and Other Poems and The Touch Me Not Girl. Her translation works are unique works of transcreation, and her translations include the songs of Rabindranath Tagore.^{[3] [4]}

Rajlukshmee Debee was All India Poetry Prize winner in 1991 for her poem Punarnava (‘’The Ever Renewing’’). Rajlukshmee was also on the Jury for the first ever All India Poetry Competition for School Children held in 1996.^[5]

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.^[6]
• ‘’The Waste Land of Bengali Fiction’’, "Indian Writing Today", Volume-3, Number-3, July–September 1969

See also

• Indian English Literature
• Indian Writing in English
• Indian poetry
• The Poetry Society (India)

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’’

External links

• ‘’Indian Poetry – Modernism and After’’ :- Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya

Notes and References

1. Web site: Third National Poetry Competition - Prize winning poems .
2. Book: Indian Writing Today . 1969 . Nirmala Sadanand Publishers . 188 . 11 July 2021.
3. Web site: Literature: Special Series; Faces of the Millennium . 6 September 2013 . 11 August 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100811072634/http://india-today.com/itoday/19991213/special.html . dead .
4. Book: Chatterjee . Debyam . Indian Literature . 2005 . Sahitya Akademi . 97 . 9788126019434 . 11 July 2021.
5. Web site: First All India Poetry Competition for Children .
6. Book: Clack . Beverley . Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition: A Reader . 2016 . Taylor & Francis . 9781134947331 . 11 July 2021.