Radha Chakravarty

Radha Chakravarty is a writer, critic and translator. She has co-edited The Essential Tagore , nominated Book of the Year 2011 by Martha Nussbaum. She is the author of Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers and Novelist Tagore: Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts . Her Tagore translations include Gora , Chokher Bali , Boyhood Days, Farewell Song: Shesher Kabita , Four Chapters and The Land of Cards: Stories, Poems and Plays for Children. Other works in translation are Bankimchandra...See more

Radha Chakravarty is a writer, critic and translator. She has co-edited The Essential Tagore , nominated Book of the Year 2011 by Martha Nussbaum. She is the author of Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers and Novelist Tagore: Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts . Her Tagore translations include Gora , Chokher Bali , Boyhood Days, Farewell Song: Shesher Kabita , Four Chapters and The Land of Cards: Stories, Poems and Plays for Children. Other works in translation are Bankimchandra Chatterjee's Kapalkundala , Mahasweta Devi's Our Santiniketan and In the Name of the Mother (nominated for the Crossword Translation Award, 2004), Vermillion Clouds: Stories by Bengali Women , and Crossings: Stories from Bangladesh and India. She has edited Shades of Difference: Selected Writings of Rabindranath Tagore , Bodymaps: Stories by South Asian Women and co-edited Writing Feminism: South Asian Voices and Writing Freedom: South Asian Voices . Her poems have appeared in numerous books and journals. She has contributed to Pandemic: A Worldwide Community Poem , nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2020. Her forthcoming books include The Tagore Phenomenon and translations of Kazi Nazrul Islam's essays. She was Professor of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India. See less