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Nandini Sahu (born 1973), English-language poet, folklorist, academic; Indira Sant (1914–2000), Marathi poet; Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862–1894), early English-language Indian novelist; Mala Sen (1947–2011), writer and human rights activist, author of India's Bandit Queen; Mallika Sengupta (1960–2011), Bengali poet, novelist, feminist ...
Founded on 1 April 1954 at 16 Mandeville Gardens, Kolkata, by Satikanta Guha and his wife, Pritylata Guha, the institution began as the first English medium co-educational school in Kolkata with just twenty students, and the founders’ vision was supported by a small, devoted group of teachers, with the initial faculty comprising prominent figures from Bengal's cultural, literary, and ...
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Born Rokeya Khatun (1880-12-09) 9 December 1880 Pairaband, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Rangpur, Bangladesh) Died 9 December 1932 (1932-12-09) (aged 52) Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now West Bengal, India) Resting place Kolkata, West Bengal, India Other names Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain R. S. Hossain Rokeya Khatoon Occupation(s) Writer ...
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Dev Sen was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) into a Bengali family on 13 January 1938. She was the only child of the poet-couple Narendra Dev (Narendra Deb 1888–1971, son of Nagendra Chandra Deb) and Radharani Devi (1903–1989), who wrote under the pen name Aparajita Devi.
Women writers (poets, novelists, screenplay writers, playwrights, journalists etc) who live or have lived West Bengal. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Writers from West Bengal . It includes writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Rita Chowdhury (born 1960) is an Indian poet and novelist who writes Assamese literature and is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award.She is the editor of the Assamese literary magazine Gariyoshi and a former director of the National Book Trust, India. [1]
Women writers (poets, novelists, screenplay writers, playwrights, journalists etc.) who live or have lived in India, or who are of Indian origin, or both. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Indian writers .