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About Sampurna Chowdhury

Sampurna Chowdhury is a student of English Honours in Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College. Her writings have been published in The Times of India student editions and various magazines including LLP Magazine (June and December 21), and 'Feminism in India'. She has also presented her paper in the National Level Online Seminar on ‘Education in its Juxtaposition with its Aims and Reality’.

Giving Voice to the Voiceless

Mahasweta Devi’s 'Draupadi' portrays a tribal woman's resistance against state oppression, highlighting gender violence and subaltern identity through Dopdi Mejhen's powerful defiance. A critique by Sampurna Chowdhury....

Literary Criticism

My Love-Hate Relationship with Satyajit Ray

Sampurna Chowdhury recalls how she used to shy away from Satyajit Ray's iconic stories, novels and films for children in her childhood and later grew to love them....

Musings

‘An Error of Judgment’ Perpetrated by the Creator and his Creation

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe has not emerged popular merely, because of its roller coaster rides and suspenseful life story but because underneath...

Literary Criticism

Malady of the Modern Man

Thomas Stearns Eliot (TS Eliot) captures the inhabitants of a deaf and blind world, who seem to suffer from confusion and contradictions. The stage of this bankrupt world is set in ‘Preludes’, where he shows...

Literary Criticism

Jyoti Babel on Insignificant: Poetic Reflections on the Vast Cosmos and Self
Thank you so much for your appreciation and kind words. Hume jab ehsaas hota hai ki is brahmand mein hum bindu matra bhi nahi hai, toh sab pareshaniya...
Madhu Verma on Insignificant: Poetic Reflections on the Vast Cosmos and Self
Jyoti, bahut hi acchi poem likhi hai tumne 👌 Brahmand ki vishalta aur insaan ke chhote hone ka ehsaas itne pyaare andaaz mein bayaan kiya hai... ...
Madhu Verma on Winning the Fastest Line Follower Trophy at Technoxian World Robotics Championship
Congratulations to budding robotics enthusiasts Ayush Gupta, Shrutika Negi, and Sampriti Bisht for winning the Fastest Line Follower Trophy at the Tec...
A K Nanda on Ei Korechho Bhalo Nithur He — English Translation of Tagore’s Song
Rajan Ji I'm extremely grateful for your comments on my translation of Tagore's poem of Geetanjali "Ei Korechho Bhalo". I had to do this on the insis...
NS Rajan on Ei Korechho Bhalo Nithur He — English Translation of Tagore’s Song
Nandaji. Namashkar. I have no knowledge of Bangla. But who hasn't heard of 'Geetanjali'? it is an irony that when I was in College in 1952, I won tw...