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[edit | edit source]
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 declared All India Poetry Champion in 1991 for her poem Punarnava (āāThe Ever Renewingāā). Rajlukshmee was also on the Jury for the first ever All India Poetry Competition for School Children held in 1996.[5]
Selected works[edit | edit source]
Books
- āāThe Owl and Other Poemsāā, Writers Workshop, Kolkata India 1972
- āāThe Touch Me Not Girlāā, Disha Publishers, New Delhi India 2000.
- āā28 Songs of Rabindranath Tagoreāā, Writers Workshop , Kolkata India 2002.
Articles
- Personal Man and Personal God āāInternational Philosophical Quarterlyāā Volume-15, December 1975.
- Because He is a Man āāCambridge Journalāā Volume 49, Issue 175, January 1974.[6]
- āāThe Waste Land of Bengali Fictionāā, āIndian Writing Todayā, Volume-3, Number-3, JulyāSeptember 1969
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ā "Third National Poetry Competition - Prize winning poems".
- ā Indian Writing Today. Nirmala Sadanand Publishers. 1969. p. 188. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ā "Literature: Special Series; Faces of the Millennium".
- ā Chatterjee, Debyam (2005). Indian Literature. Sahitya Akademi. p. 97. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ā "First All India Poetry Competition for Children".
- ā Clack, Beverley, ed. (2016). Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition: A Reader. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781134947331. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
Sources[edit | edit source]
- āGhostsā, The Little Magazine, āāRules of Loveāā
- Contemporary Indian English Poetry ā Challenges and Response
- Nations of the Soul and Female Poetic Activism ā Rajlukshmee Debeeās āāPunarnavaāā