Ketaki Datta
Dr. Ketaki Datta is an Associate Professor of English with Bidhannagar Govt. College, Kolkata.
About Ketaki Datta
Dr. Ketaki Datta is an Associate Professor of English with Bidhannagar Govt. College, Kolkata.
Apart from academic publications, she has two novels, three translated novels and a book of poems, “Across the Blue Horizon”[ funded by Arts Council, England] to her credit apart from a bunch of short stories: both original and translated. She has been to Lisbon, California and University of Oxford on an invitation to read out her papers, mainly on indigenous and World theatre. She is Regional Editor of The Theatre Times from India, being headed by Prof. Magda Romanska, Professor, Emerson College, Boston. She has contributed to Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, edited by Magda Romanska; Beyond Improbable Lines: The Partition of India [ Cambridge Scholar Publishing] by Daniela Rogobete and Elisabetta Marino. Lately, she has co- authored a book of photos and poems titled “ Urban Reflections” with Prof. Wilfried Raussert, Univ. of Bielefeld, Germany. Her book on “Oral Stories of Totos” is coming out soon from Sahitya Akademi.
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Step Back, Hated Rapists — poem unrhymed
Dr. Ketaki Datta is an Associate Professor of English with Bidhannagar Govt. College, Kolkata.
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I Am a Dalit Girl — poem unrhymed
"...beaten once, For getting my family Two buckets of water...
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A Quiet Diwali — poem unrhymed
"...I want all of us to pray To keep everyone hale and hearty..."
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Thirst: Caught between a Man and a Tomcat — poem unrhymed
"You wished to slake your thirst, did you?..."
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From Here to Eternity — poem unrhymed
"...The gliding of Time Into the smooth tiptoe, Down to Eternity..."