To Whom I Return Each Day

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Indian poetry in English has an extensive and rich tradition dating back to pre-Partition days. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio being the first poet in this lineage, Indian poetry in English has travelled far and, that too, quite successfully. It is interesting that Bengal being the cultural and intellectual hub of the country possesses an illustrious list of poets who made significant contributions in this genre of writing. Beginning with Derozio there are poets like Kashiprasad Ghosh, Rajnarain
more » ... t, Soshi Chunder Dutt, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Toru Dutt, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo who have left considerable impressions in this field of writing. Comparatively recent names include P. Lal, Sudeep Sen and Anuradha Bhattacharya. Contemporary poets with Bengali roots include diasporic writers like Basabi Frazer, Debjani Chatterjee, Sidhhartha Bose apart from poets like Sanjukta DasGupta and Jaydeep Sarangi who hail from Kolkata and have left indelible marks in Indian poetry in English.
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