Sutanuka Ghosh Roy (Voices Within 2023)

Sutanuka Ghosh Roy is an Associate Professor of English at Tarakeswar Degree College, The University of Burdwan. She is currently engaged in active research and her areas of interest include Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Indian English Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Dalit Literature, Gender Studies, etc. She has published widely and presented papers at National and International Seminars. She is a regular contributor to research articles and papers to anthologies, and national and international journals of repute like Text, Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, Australia, Muse India, Setu, Lapiz Lazuli, The Times of India, The Statesman, Life and Legends, Kitaab, etc. Her poems have been widely anthologized. The titles of her books are Critical Inquiry: Text, Context, and Perspectives, Commentaries: Elucidating Poetry, Rassundari Dasi’s Amar Jiban: A Comprehensive Study, Ashprishya (translated into Bengali, a novel by Sharan Kumar Limbale,). She is also a reviewer, a poet, and a critic.

 

 

Remembrance

 

The last time I saw you

did I notice one more crack

in the skin of your step-well

the last word that you spoke

was it a plosive or a deep glottal?

was there a faint smile or a grimace?

a slight movement of the hand

or a waking call?

 

Festivities

 

The ebb and tide of selling

rainbow dreams

the heart thumped

with great expectations

 sweat and grime

moisturized the skin

The LED lights made the eyes fireflies

the smoky aroma of food

made the nostrils swell

with pride

 hunger tastes sweet as a honey-drop.

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Setu, November 2023 :: Voices Within 2023