Voices Within: Sutanuka Ghosh Roy

Sutanuka Ghosh Roy is an Associate Professor English in Tarakeswar Degree College, University of Burdwan, WB, India. She is also a reviewer, a poet, and a critic. She is currently engaged in active research and her areas of interest include Eighteenth-Century Literature, Indian English Literature, Postcolonial Literature, etc. She is a regular contributor to research articles and papers to journals of repute like Muse India, Setu, Lapiz Lazuli, Kitaab, etc. She has guest-edited the July 2020 Issue of SETU on Children’s Literature. Her poems have been anthologized and published in Setu, Piker Press, Harbinger Asylum, etc. The titles of her books are Critical Inquiry: Text, Context, and Perspectives and Commentaries: Elucidating Poetry, Rassundari Dasi’s Amar Jiban: A Comprehensive Study.

Wrapping

Sometimes the day full of sunshine

wraps me 

I soak in the bright rays

and get sautéed with spices 

in the stone decked oven 

with a blend of mozzarella and 

cheddar for 

a synergistic cheese flavour of life!

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Patchwork Quilt

These days I am working

 on a patchwork quilt

I straight stitch the colours of the rainbow

and add a layer of wadding. 

The terrazzo of repeated shape and line,

 the blending and the melding of the stitches

 makes it look like one fabric 

of Ma’s cupped hands.

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Setu, February 2022