Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya is an Indian

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, translator and literary critic writing in

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and English. She won First Prize at the ''All India Poetry Competition'' in 1991 organized by

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in collaboration with the

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Biography

Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya was born in 1927. She taught at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and

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, Pune. She was also a Professor of Philosophy at Nowrosjee Wadia College. She is the author of ''The Owl and Other Poems'' and ''The Touch Me Not Girl''. Her translation works are unique works of

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, and her translations include the songs of

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

. Rajlukshmee Debee was

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winner in 1991 for her poem ''Punarnava'' (‘’The Ever Renewing’’). Rajlukshmee was also on the Jury for the first ever All India Poetry Competition for School Children held in 1996.

Selected works

Books * ‘’The Owl and Other Poems’’,

Writers Workshop Writers Workshop is a Kolkata-based literary publisher founded by the Indian poet and scholar Purushottama Lal in 1958. It has published many new Indian authors of post-independence urban literature. Many of these authors later became widely kn ...

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1972 * ’’The Touch Me Not Girl’’, Disha Publishers,

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2000. * ’’28 Songs of Rabindranath Tagore’’,

2002. Articles
Personal Man and Personal God
‘’International Philosophical Quarterly’’ Volume-15, December 1975.
Because He is a Man
‘’Cambridge Journal’’ Volume 49, Issue 175, January 1974. * ‘’The Waste Land of Bengali Fiction’’, “Indian Writing Today”, Volume-3, Number-3, July–September 1969

References

Sources

“Ghosts”, The Little Magazine, ‘’Rules of Love’’ Contemporary Indian English Poetry – Challenges and Response Nations of the Soul and Female Poetic Activism – Rajlukshmee Debee’s ‘’Punarnava’’

External links

‘’Indian Poetry – Modernism and After’’ :- Rajlukshmee Debee Bhattacharya
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