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  • This is to dismiss Ketaki Kushari Dyson's fine readable selection (Bloodaxe 1991), not to speak of the diversity of Selected Poems by Sukanta Chaudhuth and others in The Oxford Tagore Translations series (2004).

    Letters: Bengali poet who will not be lost in translation 2011

  • Sealdah was my own private, childhood nightmare, Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri told me, referring to the railway station that in the late 1940s, after the partition of India, housed thousands of Hindu refugees from Muslim East Bengal, who had arrived in Calcutta destitute, with nowhere to go.

    Oh! Kolkata! 2008

  • Sealdah was my own private, childhood nightmare, Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri told me, referring to the railway station that in the late 1940s, after the partition of India, housed thousands of Hindu refugees from Muslim East Bengal, who had arrived in Calcutta destitute, with nowhere to go.

    Oh! Kolkata! 2008

  • Albeit, some of his poems have been translated by Satyajit Ray (1970) and Sukanta Chaudhuri (1987), none did justice.

    Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Thanks to Ma, Pa, and their bookshop for room in their lives and shelves; Chandra Dorai and Sukanta Chaudhuri for giving me the words; and Biscoot for making it clear that words are not anywhere as expressive as tail, eyes, and paw.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • Thanks to Ma, Pa, and their bookshop for room in their lives and shelves; Chandra Dorai and Sukanta Chaudhuri for giving me the words; and Biscoot for making it clear that words are not anywhere as expressive as tail, eyes, and paw.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • Thanks to Ma, Pa, and their bookshop for room in their lives and shelves; Chandra Dorai and Sukanta Chaudhuri for giving me the words; and Biscoot for making it clear that words are not anywhere as expressive as tail, eyes, and paw.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

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